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• W4285683591 abstract "Reviewed by: Take Back What the Devil Stole: An African American Prophet's Encounters in the Spirit World by Onaje X. O. Woodbine Taylor Tate Keywords Black religion, African American spirituality, Donna Haskins, prophecy, prayer, devil, spirits, spirit world, trauma, Black masculinity, Black women onaje x. o. woodbine. Take Back What the Devil Stole: An African American Prophet's Encounters in the Spirit World. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. Pp. xiv + 254. Woodbine begins Take Back What the Devil Stole by chronicling violent incidents of Donna's childhood. Readers first observe Donna trapped in a house fire. After a mysterious man, whom Donna later identifies as God, saves her, she suffers from a post-traumatic stress disorder. Donna's trauma is compounded after her bipolar mother begins abusing her. During this time, Donna navigates sexual assault and harassment from boys and men in her neighborhood. In addition, Donna suffers in Boston's violent education system, a space that devalues, disregards, and disposes of Donna at the age of eighteen. As a young woman, Donna attempts to soothe the emotional wounds caused by her painful experiences by becoming a mother. Later, Donna meets a man who seems like a viable partner, but his brother tries to rape her. She is able to get away. Donna then connects to a man who makes her feel alive. He rapes her and Donna finds herself pregnant again. Donna rushes to get an abortion, but on the surgery table, changes her mind about aborting her child. The doctors are unable to hear her or recognize her cries for what they are. Her baby dies. Shortly after the abortion, she gets cancer and loses her young nephew to gun violence. Her ongoing trauma leads her into the arms of men who gaslight, verbally abuse, cheat, and lie to her. Donna enters her forties suffering from addiction and depression, but at the age of forty-six, she decides to attend her sister's Black Baptist church. As Donna explains it, their sermons, worship practices, and fellowship made it easy for the Holy Spirit to come through and speak to her. She did not feel this deeper connection manifested when she was attending a Catholic church, although she does credit the Catholicism with teaching her about saints like [End Page 165] St. Michael who would become important to her. Donna's spiritual experiences in this church encourage her to transform her mind into a holy space that God can enter into; now he covers her in love, and endows her with spiritual gifts, such as the gift of prophecy. She comes to see the material world as pre-colonial African philosophers describe it: imbued with spiritual forces and objects that influence it.1 In Donna's perspective, God, the Holy Spirit, His angels, and the ancestors protect and love God's creations in concrete ways. As Woodbine recounts Donna's encounters with spiritual entities, we learn that bad spirits and demons (like the spirits of hate, racism, greed and envy) prey on people like Donna, who experience emotional pain, suffering, and unease. The persistent presence of bad spirits inflames insecurities, fear, and resentment. These emotions fester and ultimately erode the psychological, spiritual, and even physical health of the suffering person. It is as if the presence of spiritual entities rots the individual's health from the inside out until the human spirit diminishes and the bad spirit is left standing in its place. When explaining these phenomena, Donna says, Whenever a soul became addicted to hatred, to racism, to greed, to envy, to money, it was this entity's [the Devil's] path to take it, to take the soul (219). Working within this cosmology, Donna draws on her spiritual gifts to reclaim souls from the Devil and restore people's relationship with God. It is through one of her missions that she meets Woodbine, the author of Take Back What the Devil Stole. She gifts him with spiritual wisdom and tells him that he is the son she lost in her abortion long ago, only reincarnated as someone else. Touched by his encounters with her, Woodbine works to tell her story. Throughout the book, Woodbine expertly..." @default.
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