In Queering Black Atlantic Religions Roberto Strongman examines Haitian Vodou, Cuban Lucumí/Santería, and Brazilian Candomblé to demonstrate how religious rituals of trance possession allow humans to understand themselves as embodiments of the divine. In these rituals, the commingling of humans and the divine produces gender identities that are independent of biological sex. As opposed to the Cartesian view of the spirit as locked within the body, the body in Afro-diasporic religions is an open receptacle. This modular conception of self allows spiritual hosts to inhabit bodies, which, depending on the deity's and body's sexual caterogrization, may regender bodies. Strongman draws on novels, ethnographies, paintings, photographs, films, and interviews to explore the sources and effects of this regendering, including the multiplicity of self in Vodou in the work of Zora Neale Hurston, Katherine Dunham, and others; nonheteronormative representations of Lucumí/Santería cultural practices; and queer literary Candomblé scholarship. Showing how trance possession spills over into ordinary life and is a primary aspect of almost all Afro-diasporic cultural production, Strongman articulates transcorporeality: a black, trans-Atlantic understanding of the human psyche, soul, and gender as multiple, removable, and external to the body.