Title The formation of Candomblé : Vodun history and ritual in Brazil / Luis Nicolau Parés ; translated by Richard Vernon in collaboration with the author

Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2013]

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 398 pages) Series Latin America in translation / en traducción / em tradução Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução. Contents Between two coasts : nations, ethnicities, ports, and the slave trade -- The formation of a Jeje ethnic identity in Bahia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- From Calundu to Candomblé : the formative process of Afro-Brazilian religion -- The Jeje contribution to the institutionalization of Candomblé in the nineteenth century -- Bogum and Roça de Cima : the parallel history of two Jeje terreiros in the second half of the nineteenth century -- Leadership and internal dynamic of the Bogum and Seja Hundé terreiros in the twentieth century -- The Jeje Pantheon and its transformations -- The ritual : characteristics of the Jeje-Mahi liturgy in Bahia Summary Interweaving three centuries of transatlantic religious and social history with historical and twenty-first century ethnography, the author traces the formation of Candomblé, one of the most influential African-derived religious forms in the African diaspora, with practitioners today centered in Brazil but also living in Europe and elsewhere in the Americas. Originally published in Brazil and not available in English, this translated edition reveals cultural changes that have occurred in religious practices within Africa, as well as those caused by the displacement of enslaved Africans in the Americas Notes Originally published in Portuguese in Campinas by Editora da Unicamp as A formação do Candomblé: História e ritual da nação jeje na Bahia, 2006 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-367) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Candomblé (Religion) -- Brazil -- Bahia (State) Black people -- Brazil -- Bahia (State) -- Ethnic identity Black people -- Brazil -- Bahia (State) -- History Black people -- Brazil -- Bahia (State) -- Religion Black people -- Race identity -- Brazil -- Bahia (State) BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Spirituality -- Paganism & Neo-Paganism. RELIGION -- Comparative Religion. HISTORY -- Latin America -- South America. Black people Black people -- Ethnic identity Black people -- Religion Candomblé (Religion) SUBJECT Bahia (Brazil : State) -- Religious life and customs Subject Brazil -- Bahia (State) Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2013020448 ISBN 9781469612638 1469612631 9781469610931 1469610930

Other Titles Formação do Candomblé. English

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