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1 online resource (232 pages) : illustrations |
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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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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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Black people -- Religion -- Congresses
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Syncretism (Religion) -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Congresses
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Syncretism (Religion) -- Latin America -- Congresses
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Afro-Brazilian religions -- Congresses
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RELIGION -- Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict.
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Afro-Brazilian cults
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Black people -- Religion
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Syncretism (Religion)
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Afrobrasilianischer Kult
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Synkretismus
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Syncretisme.
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Sub-Saharan Africa
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Latin America
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Subsaharisches Afrika
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Lateinamerika
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Greenfield, Sidney M
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Droogers, A. F
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| ISBN |
0585383634 |
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9780585383637 |
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