links survival of ABRs in post abolition of slavery Brazil to the way in which they provided a point of integration at a time when the social world and community of blacks was being shattered1 (164-170)
ABRs not naturally suited to migration in Brazil due to the geographical nature of the rituals; tendency to migrate towards umbanda in urban areas2 (214-219)
ABRs politically followed the practice of supporting the existing party in power as long as it granted freedom3 (234)
All deities ambivalent in African thought4 (251)
Exu: tension between role as intermediary and demonic aspect5 (252-253)
1R Bastide, The African Religions of Brazil: Towards a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations (London: John Hopkins University Press, 1978) 164–170.
2R Bastide, The African Religions of Brazil: Towards a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations (London: John Hopkins University Press, 1978) 214–219.
3R Bastide, The African Religions of Brazil: Towards a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations (London: John Hopkins University Press, 1978) 234.
4R Bastide, The African Religions of Brazil: Towards a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations (London: John Hopkins University Press, 1978) 251.
5R Bastide, The African Religions of Brazil: Towards a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations (London: John Hopkins University Press, 1978) 252–253.
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