Bastide ctd

"black reinterpreted Christianity in terms of his own utilitarian collective religion"¹ (141) i) worship of saints in terms of privileges to be granted--> payment, promise " a barter economy of gift and countergifts of exchange without celestial involvement."² (141)

"African values were transplanted to a new world, to a two class society consisting of masters and slaves" claims that ethnic civilizations became class civilizations³ (155-156)

African community and kingdom left in Africa, but myths and Gods taken to Brazil⁴ (155)

black living in two circles--> social group; --> Brazilian one⁵ (157)

In Brazil Catholicism conceived by blacks as a social activity rather than a mystique⁶ (158)Blacks saw Catholicism in terms of a transcendental God to be reached through intermediaries like African religion⁷ (161-162)

1R Bastide, The African Religions of Brazil: Towards a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations (London: John Hopkins University Press, 1978) 141.

2R Bastide, The African Religions of Brazil: Towards a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations (London: John Hopkins University Press, 1978) 141,

3R Bastide, The African Religions of Brazil: Towards a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations (London: John Hopkins University Press, 1978) 155–156.

4R Bastide, The African Religions of Brazil: Towards a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations (London: John Hopkins University Press, 1978) 155.

5R Bastide, The African Religions of Brazil: Towards a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations (London: John Hopkins University Press, 1978) 157.

6R Bastide, The African Religions of Brazil: Towards a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations (London: John Hopkins University Press, 1978) 158.

7R Bastide, The African Religions of Brazil: Towards a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations (London: John Hopkins University Press, 1978) 161–162.