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Title Reinventing religions : syncretism and transformation in Africa and the Americas / edited by Sidney M. Greenfield and André Droogers
Published Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (232 pages) : illustrations
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes 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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Subject Black people -- Religion -- Congresses
Syncretism (Religion) -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Congresses
Syncretism (Religion) -- Latin America -- Congresses
Afro-Brazilian religions -- Congresses
RELIGION -- Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict.
Afro-Brazilian cults
Black people -- Religion
Syncretism (Religion)
Afrobrasilianischer Kult
Synkretismus
Syncretisme.
Sub-Saharan Africa
Latin America
Subsaharisches Afrika
Lateinamerika
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Greenfield, Sidney M
Droogers, A. F
ISBN 0585383634
9780585383637