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tendency to moralize African deities especially Iemanja who is identified with Virgin Mary¹ (256-257)

Responses to syncretism: 1) Back to Africa-- a rejection of Catholicism 2) hiding of African deities behind Catholic saints 3) Catholic infiltration of ABRs² (260-261)"an idolatrous cult of statues conceived as images of the /orixas'"³ (260)

syncretism not particularly Brazilian but predates the slave trade in the evangelization of blacks in Africa ⁴(262) structural parallel of the intercession of the saints in Catholicism with the role of orixas as mediators⁵ (262) similarity between functional role played by Saints (esp. as patrons) and functional element of orixas⁶ (262) some simply regard the "saint" as the Portuguese name for the orixa⁷ (272)

Ecological syncretism in terreiros 1) African and Catholic elements often kept separate and distant. Often the Catholic element is the external public image whilst the African element is inner and secret 2) African and Catholic elements kept separate, but close 3) African and Catholic elements mixed ⁸(272-274)

Catholic ABR syncretism "nothing new or extraordinary compared to syncretism among the African religions themselves⁹ (277)

ABRs incorporated the magical element and potent prayers of Medieval Catholicism¹⁰

1R Bastide, The African Religions of Brazil: Towards a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations (London: John Hopkins University Press, 1978) 256–257.

2R Bastide, The African Religions of Brazil: Towards a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations (London: John Hopkins University Press, 1978) 260–261.

3R Bastide, The African Religions of Brazil: Towards a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations (London: John Hopkins University Press, 1978) 260.

4R Bastide, The African Religions of Brazil: Towards a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations (London: John Hopkins University Press, 1978) 262.

5R Bastide, The African Religions of Brazil: Towards a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations (London: John Hopkins University Press, 1978) 262.

6R Bastide, The African Religions of Brazil: Towards a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations (London: John Hopkins University Press, 1978) 262.

7R Bastide, The African Religions of Brazil: Towards a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations (London: John Hopkins University Press, 1978) 272.

8R Bastide, The African Religions of Brazil: Towards a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations (London: John Hopkins University Press, 1978) 272-274.

9R Bastide, The African Religions of Brazil: Towards a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations (London: John Hopkins University Press, 1978) 277.

10R Bastide, The African Religions of Brazil: Towards a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations (London: John Hopkins University Press, 1978) 278–279.