Slaves and religions in Graeco-Roman antiquity and modern Brazil
By: edited by Stephen Hodkinson and Dick Geary
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 341
ISBN-13: 9781443837361
Subjects: Religious aspects; Slavery
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction.; title: Slaves and religions :; title: historiographies, ancient and modern  -- Stephen Hodkinson and Dick Geary; title: In the eyes of the beholders or in the minds of the believers?; title: Historicizing "religion" and enslavement  -- Joseph C. Miller; title: The ritual activity of Roman slaves  -- J.A. North; title: Slaves and role reversal in Ancient Greek cults  -- Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz; title: Slaves included?; title: Sexual regulations and slave participation in two ancient religious groups  -- Karin Neutel; title: The journey home :; title: a freed Mulatto priest, a Cipriano Pires Sardinha, and his religious mission to Dahomey  -- Júnia Ferreira Furtado; title: Manumission, social rebirth, and healing Gods in Ancient Greece  -- Deborah Kamen; title: The Apollo of slaves and freedmen  -- Bassir Amiri; title: Infant slave baptisms, legitimacy, parental origins, godparenthood and naming practices in the Parish of São José Do Rio Das Mortes Brazil (1750-1850)  -- Douglas Cole Libby; title: "What will happen to me if I leave?"; title: Ancient Greek oracles, slaves and slave owners  -- Esther Eidinow; title: Magic, religion, and the Roman slave :; title: resistance, control and community  -- Niall McKeown; title: "The rights of man" or "Afro-American call to holy war" :; title: religion, ideology and slave revolt in Brazil, 1750-1880 -- Dick Geary.