Wednesday, 7 May 2008

Bastide ctd

Traces the emergence of Umbanda out of Macumba and Spiritism. Sees it as "masks for the new needs and attitudes of a social group on the rise."1

1R Bastide, The African Religions of Brazil: Towards a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations (London: John Hopkins University Press, 1978) 304312, quote 312.

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