Bastide ctd

death of ancestral cult with breakup of family in Brazil¹ (128-129) prevalence of African rites in slave's death² (129)

cultivation of African magic--> influence over Portuguese-->acceptance of medicinal magic--> shortage of doctors³ (131) fear of harmful magic⁴ (132)

Lack of understanding led white man to write off black religion as demonic and lead to a social dualism between plantation (as good) and senzala (as evil)⁵ (139)

1R Bastide, The African Religions of Brazil: Towards a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations (London: John Hopkins University Press, 1978) 128–129.

2R Bastide, The African Religions of Brazil: Towards a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations (London: John Hopkins University Press, 1978) 129.

3R Bastide, The African Religions of Brazil: Towards a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations (London: John Hopkins University Press, 1978) 131.

4R Bastide, The African Religions of Brazil: Towards a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations (London: John Hopkins University Press, 1978) 132.

5R Bastide, The African Religions of Brazil: Towards a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations (London: John Hopkins University Press, 1978) 139.