Black Protestantism not different from white¹ (366) attraction for Blacks: anti slavery stance; schools open for blacks; some religious teaching² (367)

claims that when a Black person converts to Protestantism is becoming part of a religious elite³ (369)

increase in Protestantism, decrease in Magic⁴

1R Bastide, The African Religions of Brazil: Towards a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations (London: John Hopkins University Press, 1978) 366.

2R Bastide, The African Religions of Brazil: Towards a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations (London: John Hopkins University Press, 1978) 367.

3R Bastide, The African Religions of Brazil: Towards a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations (London: John Hopkins University Press, 1978) 369.

4R Bastide, The African Religions of Brazil: Towards a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations (London: John Hopkins University Press, 1978) 365–370.