Bastide ctd

Black on arrival in Brazil: evangelized; learnt latin prayers; received baptism; attended mass; received sacraments¹ (53)

Jesuits instigated syncretism within the black African Catholics brotherhoods²

1R Bastide, The African Religions of Brazil: Towards a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations (London: John Hopkins University Press, 1978) 53.

2R Bastide, The African Religions of Brazil: Towards a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations (London: John Hopkins University Press, 1978) 53–54.