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Title:

Reinventing religions : syncretism and transformation in Africa and the Americas / edited by Sidney M. Greenfield and André Droogers.

Publisher:

Rowman & Littlefield,

Copyright Date:

c2001

Description:

232 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Blacks--Religion.--Congresses.
Syncretism (Religion)--Africa, Sub-Saharan--Congresses.
Syncretism (Religion)--Latin America.--Congresses.
Afro-Brazilian cults.--Congresses.

Other Authors:

Greenfield, Sidney M.
Droogers, A. F.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN:

9780847688531 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0847688534 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780847688524 (alk. paper)
0847688526 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)44775173

LCCN:

00059199

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)