The formation of Candomblé : Vodun history and ritual in Brazil / Luis Nicolau Parés ; translated by Richard Vernon in collaboration with the author.
Language: English Original language: Portuguese Series: Latin America in translation/en traducción/em traduçãoPublisher: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2013Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
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- 9781469612638 (electronic bk.)
- 1469612631 (electronic bk.)
- Formação do Candomblé. English
- Candomblé (Religion) -- Brazil -- Bahia (State)
- Blacks -- Brazil -- Bahia (State) -- Ethnic identity
- Blacks -- Brazil -- Bahia (State) -- History
- Blacks -- Brazil -- Bahia (State) -- Religion
- Bahia (Brazil : State) -- Religious life and customs
- BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Spirituality / Paganism & Neo-Paganism
- RELIGION / Comparative Religion
- 299.673098142 23
- BL2592.C35 P3713 2013eb
Originally published in Portuguese in Campinas by Editora da Unicamp as A formação do Candomblé: História e ritual da nação jeje na Bahia, 2006.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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