A Refuge in Thunder
Subtitle: Candomble and Alternative Spaces of Blackness (Blacks in the Diaspora)
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: May 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9780253337054
Subjects: Black studies; Ethnic or tribal religions; History of religion; c 1800 to c 1900; Ethnic Sociology; Religious Anthropology; Social Science; Religion - World Religions; Sociology; Caribbean & Latin American; Ethnic & Tribal; Latin America - South America; Anthropology - Cultural; Ethnic Studies - General; General; 19th century; Bahia (State); Blacks; Brazil; Candomblâe (Religion); History; Race identity
Description: "Candombe has long been recognized as an extraordinary resource of African tradition, values, and identity among its adherents in Bahia, Brazil. Outlawed and persecuted in the late colonial and imperial period, Candomble nevertheless developed as one of the major religious expressions of the Afro-Atlantic diaspora.

Drawing principally on primary sources, such as police archives, Harding describes the development of the religion as an "alternative" space in which subjugated and enslaved blacks were able to cultivate a sense of individual and collective identity that stood in opposition to the subaltern status imposed upon them from the dominant society."--BOOK JACKET.