| Author |
Selka, Stephen.
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| Series |
New World diasporas |
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New World diasporas series.
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| Subject |
Religion and politics -- Brazil -- Salvador.
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Ethnicity -- Brazil -- Salvador.
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Ethnicity -- Religious aspects.
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Brazil -- Religion.
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Salvador (Brazil) -- Religion.
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| Description |
1 online resource (x, 175 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome rdacc |
| Bibliography Note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-168) and index. |
| Contents |
Religion and Race in Brazil -- Catholicism and Afro-Brazilian Identity -- Candomblé, Afro-Brazilian Culture, and Anti-Racism -- Alternative Identities, Emergent Politics --The Politics of Afro-Brazilian Identity. |
| Summary |
Brazilians of African descent draw upon both Christian and African diasporic religions to construct their racial identities in a variety of intriguing ways. Focusing on the Reconcavo region of northeastern Brazil - known for its rich Afro-Brazilian traditions and as a center of racial consciousness in the country - Stephen Selka provides a nuanced and sophisticated ethnography that examines what it means to be black in Brazil. Selka examines how Evangelical Protestantism, Candomble (traditional Afro-Brazilian religion), and Catholicism - especially progressive Catholicism - are deployed in discursive struggles concerning racism and identity. In the process, he provides a model of wedding abstract theory with concrete details of everyday life. Revealing the complexity and sometimes contradictory aspects of Afro-Brazilian religious practices and racial identity, Selka brings a balanced perspective to polarized discussions of Brazilian racial politics. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| ISBN |
9780813039923 (electronic bk.) |
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0813039924 (electronic bk.) |
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9780813031712 |
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0813031710 |
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9780813033877 |
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081303387X |
| OCLC # |
747427289 |
| Additional Format |
Print version: Selka, Stephen. Religion and the politics of ethnic identity in Bahia, Brazil. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2007 9780813031712 (DLC) 2007027405 (OCoLC)154704859 |
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