Bastide ctd

African society could not be reborn in Brazil; African culture could¹ (43-44)

"We know little about Afro-Brazilian religions in those distant times but we should certainly give up the notion of cultic centres surviving through the centuries down to the present day... think rather of a chaotic proliferation of cults or cult fragments arising only to die out and give way to others with every new wave of arrivals."² (47)

Candomble--late 18th century; early 19th century origin³ (47-48)

large plantations facilitated survival of African cultural values . role of celebrations.⁴(48-49)

tension between cultural and political solutions for the plight of the Afro-Brazilian⁵ (50)

freed Urban slaves upholders of African religions⁶ (52)

1R Bastide, The African Religions of Brazil: Towards a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations (London: John Hopkins University Press, 1978) 43–44.

2R Bastide, The African Religions of Brazil: Towards a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations (London: John Hopkins University Press, 1978) 47.

3R Bastide, The African Religions of Brazil: Towards a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations (London: John Hopkins University Press, 1978) 47–48.

4R Bastide, The African Religions of Brazil: Towards a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations (London: John Hopkins University Press, 1978) 48–49.

5R Bastide, The African Religions of Brazil: Towards a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations (London: John Hopkins University Press, 1978) 50.

6R Bastide, The African Religions of Brazil: Towards a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations (London: John Hopkins University Press, 1978) 52.