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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Peter B Clarke |
| ISBN: | 031330128X 9780313301285 |
| OCLC Number: | 37725437 |
| Description: | xii, 309 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction / Peter B. Clarke -- 1. Recasting Syncretism ... Again: Theories and Concepts in Anthropology and Afro-American Studies in the Light of Changing Social Agendas / Sidney M. Greenfield -- 2. Accounting for Recent Anti-Syncretist Trends in Candomble-Catholic Relations / Peter B. Clarke -- 3. Non-African Spiritual Entities in Afro-Brazilian Religion and Afro-Amerindian Syncretism / Mundicarmo Ferretti -- 4. The Churchifying of Candomble: Priests, Anthropologists, and the Canonization of the African Religious Memory in Brazil / Roberto Motta -- 5. With Dance and Drum: A Psycho-Cultural Investigation of the Meaning-Making System of an African-Brazilian, Macumba Community in Salvador, Brazil / Valerie De Marinis -- 6. Umbanda and Its Clientele / Tina Gudrun Jensen -- 7. The Shakers of St. Vincent: A Symbolic Focus for Discourses / Charles Gullick -- 8. Contested Rituals of the African Diaspora / Stephen D. Glazier -- 9. From Mimesis to Appropriation in Shouter Baptism and Shango: The Earth People of Trinidad / Roland Littlewood -- 10. Religion, Patriarchy, and the Status of Rastafarian Women / Obiagele Lake -- 11. Rastafari Perceptions of Self and Symbolism / William R. Van De Berg -- 12. The Nation of Islam / Mike Taylor -- 13. Santeria and Curanderismo in Los Angeles / Brian McGuire and Duncan Scrymgeour -- 14. Some Thoughts on Syncretism in Suriname Creole Migrant Culture, as Reproduced by Migrant Women in the Netherlands / Ineke van Wetering -- 15. The African Diaspora in the Netherlands / Gerrie ter Haar -- 16. From Africa into Italy: The Exorcistic-Therapeutic Cult of Emmanuel Milingo / Vittorio Lanternari -- 17. Pseudo-Conversion and African Independent Churches / Victor Wan-Tatah. |
| Series Title: | Contributions in Afro-American and African studies, no. 186. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Peter B. Clarke. |
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