points to the significance of blacks in offering testimonies in Pentecostal churches---> claims that Baptism in the Holy SPirit and Water Baptism coincide for blacks and links this with the descent of the orixas1 (371)
re: Pentecostalism "At the moment when he seems closest to Africa...he is actually farthest from it, more Westernized than ever before."2
1R Bastide, The African Religions of Brazil: Towards a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations (London: John Hopkins University Press, 1978) 371.
2R Bastide, The African Religions of Brazil: Towards a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations (London: John Hopkins University Press, 1978) 372.
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