Laura S. Grillo

–  IN PRESS  – My forthcoming contribution to an anthology in press, “Catching Bullets with Buttocks: the ‘obscene’ African power of Queen Nanny of the Jamaican Maroons” traces the use of “Female Genital Power” in Caribbean history....

The Oxford Handbook of Caribbean Religions was finally published – after six long years in the works! My contribution is Chapter 22, “Divination in the Caribbean.” Divination is the pivot on which a number of critical religious practices hinge—initiation, healing and...