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New trends and developments in African religions

Author: Peter B Clarke
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1998.
Series: Contributions in Afro-American and African studies, no. 186.
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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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