Reinventing religions: syncretism and transformation in Africa and the Americas

    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Greenfield,Sidney M. (Author) and Droogers,A. F. (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    2001
    WorldCat URL:
    http://www.worldcat.org/isbn/9780847688524
    Published:
    Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    ISBN:
    0847688526; 9780847688524; 0847688534
    Subject Term:
    Blacks, Latin America, Religion, Africa, Conferences, Syncretism (Religion), and Religion, Afro-Brazilian
    Notes:
    232 p, Contents: Recovering and reconstructing syncretism / André Droogers, Sidney M. Greenfield -- A Yoruba healer as syncretic specialist: herbalism, rosicrucianism and the Babalawo / Frank A. Salamon -- Population growth, industrialization and the proliferation of syncretized religions in Brazil / Sidney M. Greenfield -- Ethnicity, purity, the market and syncretism in Afro-Brazilian cults / Roberto Motta -- Religious syncretism in an Afro-Brazilian cult house / Sergio F. Ferretti -- The presence of non-African spirits in an Afro-Brazilian religion: a case of Afro-Amerindian syncretism? / Mundicarmo M.R. Ferretti -- The reinterpretation of Africa: convergence and syncretism in Brazilian Candomblé / Sidney M. Greenfield -- Possession and syncretism: spirits as mediators in modernity / Inger Sjørslev -- Joana's story: syncretism at the actor's level / André Droogers -- Ragga cowboys: country and western themes in Rastafarian-inspired Reggae music / Werner Zips -- Polyvocality and constructions of syncretism in Winti / Ineke van Wetering -- Seeking syncretism: the case of Sathya Sai Baba / Morton Klass

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