Recreating Africa
Subtitle: culture, kinship, and religion in the African-Portuguese world, 1441-1770
By: James H. Sweet.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
Subjects: Blacks -- Brazil -- Religion; Blacks -- Brazil -- Social conditions; Slavery and the church -- Brazil -- History; Slavery and the church -- Catholic Church -- History; Afro-Brazilian cults; Brazil -- Civilization -- African influences
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-285) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Living and dying in the African-Portuguese diaspora; title: Demography, distribution, and diasporic streams; title: Kinship, family, and household formation; title: Disease, mortality, and master power; title: Part II. African religious responses; title: Catholic vs. "other" in the world of believers; title: Theory and praxis in the study of African religions; title: African divination in the diaspora; title: Calundus, curing, and medicine in the colonial world; title: Witchcraft, ritual, and resistance in the African-Portuguese diaspora; title: Part III. Africans and the Catholic Church; title: African Catholicism in the Portuguese world; title: The impacts of African religious beliefs on Brazilian Catholicism.