{"product_id":"underworld-work-ahmad-greene-hayes-9780226838861","title":"Underworld Work: Black Atlantic Religion Making in Jim Crow New Orleans","description":"\u003cb\u003eA rethinking of African American religious history that focuses on the development and evolution of Africana spiritual traditions in Jim Crow New Orleans.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e When Zora Neale Hurston traveled to New Orleans, she encountered a religious underworld, a beautiful anarchy of spiritual life. In \u003ci\u003eUnderworld Work\u003c\/i\u003e, Ahmad Greene-Hayes follows Hurston on a journey through the rich tapestry of Black religious expression from emancipation through Jim Crow. He looks within and beyond the church to recover the diverse leadership of migrants, healers, dissidents, and queer people who transformed their marginalized homes, bars, and street corners into sacred space. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Greene-Hayes shows how, while enclosed within an anti-black world, these outcasts embraced Africana esotericisms--ancestral veneration, faith healing, spiritualized sex work, and more--to conjure a connection to freer worlds past and yet to come. In recovering these spiritual innovations, \u003ci\u003eUnderworld Work \u003c\/i\u003ecelebrates the resilience and creativity of Africana religions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ahmad Greene-Hayes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226838862\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226838861\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/06\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs","brand":"Ahmad Greene-Hayes","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46526434574591,"sku":"9780226838861","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a8150432-7666-4769-9aa0-f8f2f90e2ae7.jpg?v=1737556174","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/underworld-work-ahmad-greene-hayes-9780226838861","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}