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Religion and the politics of ethnic identity in Bahia, Brazil / Stephen Selka.
Van Pelt Library BL2590.B7 S45 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Selka, Stephen.
- Series:
- New World diasporas series
- New World diasporas
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnicity.
- Religion and politics.
- Brazil--Religion.
- Brazil.
- Religion.
- Salvador (Brazil)--Religion.
- Salvador (Brazil).
- Religion and politics--Brazil--Salvador.
- Ethnicity--Brazil--Salvador.
- Ethnicity--Religious aspects.
- Brazil--Salvador.
- Physical Description:
- x, 175 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2007]
- Summary:
- Brazilians of African descent draw upon both Christian and African diasporic religions to construct their racial identities in a variety of intriguing ways. Focusing on the Reconcavo region of northeastern Brazil--known for its rich Afro-Brazilian traditions and as a center of racial consciousness in the country--Stephen Selka provides a nuanced and sophisticated ethnography that examines what it means to be black in Brazil. Selka examines how Evangelical Protestantism, Candomble (traditional Afro-Brazilian religion), and Catholicism--especially progressive Catholicism--are deployed in discursive struggles concerning racism and identity. In the process, he provides a model of wedding abstract theory with concrete details of everyday life. Revealing the complexity and sometimes contradictory aspects of Afro-Brazilian religious practices and racial identity, Selka brings a balanced perspective to polarized discussions of Brazilian racial politics.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [157]-168) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813031712
- 0813031710
- OCLC:
- 154704859
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