Searching for Africa in Brazil : Power and Tradition in Candomblé /

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Analyzes the politics of the "Africanness" of Afro-Brazilian religion, focusing on the conflicts and interplay between academics and practitioners over the past century

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Capone, Stefania
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Francés
Published: Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2010.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Religiöser Wandel
Religionsethnologie
Candomble
Afroamerikanischer Synkretismus
Religion and sociology.
Gods, Afro-Brazilian.
Cults.
Candomble (Religion)
Black people > Religion.
RELIGION > General.
RELIGION > Ethnic & Tribal.
Dieux afro-bresiliens.
Cultes > Bresil.
Candomble.
Sociologie religieuse.
Black people > Brazil > Religion.
Cults > Brazil.
Rio de Janeiro
Bahia
Brasilien
Brazil.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The messenger of the gods : Exu in Afro-Brazilian religions
  • The spirits of darkness : Exu and Pombagira in Umbanda
  • The religious continuum
  • Reorganizing sacred space
  • Contesting power
  • Exu and the anthropologists
  • In search of lost origins
  • Which Africa? which tradition?

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