Take Back What the Devil Stole: An African American Prophet's Encounters in the Spirit World
Onaje X.O. Woodbine
Columbia University Press
Take Back What the Devil Stole centers the encounters of an African American woman in Boston with the supernatural to offer a powerful narrative of how one woman seeks to reclaim her power from a lifetime of social violence. Both ethnographic and personal, Woodbine’s portrait of her spiritual life sheds new light on the complexities of Black women’s religious participation and the lived religion of the dispossessed. Woodbine explores Donna’s religious creativity and her sense of multireligious belonging as she blends together Catholic, Afro-Caribbean, and Black Baptist traditions.