Almeida,Adroaldo J. S. (Editor), Santos,Lyndon de A. (Editor), and Ferretti,Sérgio Figueiredo (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Language:
Portuguese
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
São Paulo, SP, Brasil: Paulinas: Edições ABHR
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
Papers presented at the 8th Simpósio da Associação Brasileira de História das Religiões, held in São Luís (MA) on May 2-5, 2006 and Colóquio Centenário da Morte de Nina Rodrigues held May 2006., 191 p.
Tishken,Joel E. (Editor), Falola,Toyin (Editor), and Akínyẹmí,Akíntúndé (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
365 p., Explores Sango religious traditions in West Africa and beyond. It considers the spread of polytheistic religious traditions from West Africa, the mythic Sango, the historical Sango, and syncretic traditions of Sango worship. Includes Stephen D. Glazier's article "Wither Sàngó? : an inquiry into Sàngó's "authenticity" and prominence in the Caribbean."
Blanes,Ruy Llera (Editor) and Espirito Santo,Diana (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
2014
Published:
Chicago: University of Chicago Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
305 p., By stripping symbolism from the way we think about the spirit world, the contributors of this book uncover a livelier, more diverse environment of entities--with their own histories, motivations, and social interactions--providing a new understanding of spirits not as symbols, but as agents.
França,Edson (Editor), Ruy,José Carlos (Editor), and Vieira,Manoel Julião (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Language:
Portuguese
Publication Date:
2007
Published:
São Paulo: Editora e Livraria Anita Garibaldi
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
158 p., Contents: Prefácio/ Manoel Julião Vieira-- Uma história de luta contra o racismo UNEGRO-- Poemas/ Solano Trindades-- Olhar panorámico sobre o movimento negro brasileiro/ Edson França-- O marxismo e a questão colonial e racial/ Augusto Buonicore-- Há racismo no Brasil Algumas características do preconceito racial brasileiro José Carlos Ruy-- Raças, genes e história Verõnica Bercht --População e miscigenação no Brasil; Clóvis Moura-- Mulher negra: os avanços são ingáveis / Estela Maris Cardoso-- Ambivalências raciais/ Dennis de Oliveira-- A luta contro o racismo é parte integrante do projeto de emancipação nacional e social: documetos da Luta Anti-Racista.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
374 p., This volume's transnational mixture, along with its use of creative analytical approaches, challenges existing paradigms and summons new models for studying women, religions, and diasporic shiftings across time and space. Includes "É a senzala: slavery, women, and embodied knowledge in Afro-Brazilian Candomblé" by Rachel Elizabeth Harding, "'I smoothed the way; I opened doors': women in the Yoruba-Orisha tradition of Trinidad' by Tracey E. Hucks, and "Joining the African diaspora: migration and diasporic religious culture among the Garifuna in Honduras and New York" by Paul Christopher Johnson.
