Bastide on religion
Subtitle: the invention of candomblé
By: Michel Despland.
Series: Key thinkers in the study of religion
Publisher: Equinox Pub. Ltd.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London; Oakville, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 147
ISBN-13: 9781845533656; 9781845533663
Subjects: Bastide, Roger, -- 1898-1974; Religion; Candomblé (Religion); Bahia (Brazil : State) -- Religious life and customs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: An intellectual biography; title: Breaking the glass and striking the rock; title: Symbols, memory and anticipation : sociology from Durkheim to Gurvitch; title: Civilizations neither meet nor clash, people do; title: The three books on Afro-Brazilian religions; title: The Paris career : the world of French ethnologists; title: Leaving safe ground : acknowledging the fluidity of human interaction; title: Candomblé as paradigm for translocal religion; title: O sagrado selvagem as corner stone of a theory of religion; title: Study of religion and sociology of knowledge; title: The aesthetic dimension, or the Black hen lays white eggs.