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These ways of knowing are becoming more and more influential in contemporary societies, popular culture, and academic research. This series focuses on ways of knowing that are often labeled as non-rational, traditionally referred to as gnosis in Western philosophical and religious traditions and often understood in contrary position to science. My name is Giovanna Parmigiani, and I am the host of the series, organized within the Transcendence and Transformation Initiative at the CSWR here at Harvard Divinity School.

GIOVANNA PARMIGIANI: Welcome to our second gnosiology event. Black Magic Matters: Hoodoo as Ancestral Religion. She writes on topics such as race, comics, and Voodoo memes at The Academic Hoodoo. Her work focuses on the intersections between religion and magic and the diversity of Africana traditions in the United States.

She is the author of Black Magic: Religion and the African American Conjuring Tradition (2003). Yvonne Chireau is Professor in the Department of Religion at Swarthmore College, where she teaches courses on African American religions, Black women and religion, and New World African religions. Like their enslaved forebears, today’s practitioners cultivate ancestral spirituality in support of individuals and communities, and to heal diverse afflictions of the body politic, intergenerational trauma, racial and sexual violence, and economic impoverishment.“Black Magic Matters: Hoodoo as Ancestral Religion” is part of the CSWR’s new initiative, “ Transcendence and Transformation.” We will discuss the origins of magic in the specific context of slavery in America and consider the meaning of black magic in the present day.

10.ĭoes Black Magic Matter? A brief discussion of the African American traditions known as Hoodoo, Conjure and Rootworking, and practices of divination, spiritual protection and healing. A conversation with Yvonne Chireau took place on Nov.