Wednesday, 7 May 2008

Bastide ctd

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) 164170.

2R Bastide, The African Religions of Brazil: Towards a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations (London: John Hopkins University Press, 1978) 214219.

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) 252253.

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