Recreating Africa culture, kinship, and religion in the African-Portuguese world, 1441-1770 - Sweet, James H. (James Hoke); NetLibrary, Inc. (Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2003)
Part I. Living and dying in the African-Portuguese diaspora -- Demography, distribution, and diasporic streams -- Kinship, family, and household formation -- Disease, mortality, and master power -- Part II. African religious responses -- Catholic vs. "other" in the world of believers -- Theory and praxis in the study of African religions -- African divination in the diaspora -- Calundus, curing, and medicine in the colonial world -- Witchcraft, ritual, and resistance in the African-Portuguese diaspora -- Part III. Africans and the Catholic Church -- African Catholicism in the Portuguese world -- The impacts of African religious beliefs on Brazilian Catholicism.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-285) and index.
Electronic reproduction.
Keywords: Blacks -- Brazil -- Religion; Blacks -- Brazil -- Social conditions; Slavery and the church -- Brazil -- History; Slavery and the church -- Catholic Church -- History; Afro-Brazilian cults; Brazil -- Civilization -- African influences; Electronic books