The African Religions of Brazil: Toward a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations by Roger Bastide, Helen Sebba (Translator)
BUY IT NEW
- $25.00 Online price$22.50 Member price(Save 10%)Limited Time Offer! Everyone receives the Member Price on books.
See Details
(Paperback)
- Pub. Date: March 2007
- 494pp
- Sales Rank: 392,616
Buy it Used: 1 copies from $23.09 See All Available
Customers who bought this also bought
Product Details
- Pub. Date: March 2007
- Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
- Format: Paperback, 494pp
- Sales Rank: 392,616
- Series: Johns Hopkins Studies in Atlantic History and Culture
- ISBN-13: 9780801886249
- ISBN: 0801886244
Synopsis
Written by one of France's most brilliant and creative anthropologists, The African Religions of Brazil is regarded as a classic in Afro-American studies. First published in France in 1960, the book represents a singular effort to develop a theory of the interpenetrations of African, European, Christian, and non-Christian cultures in Brazil from colonial times to the present. Addressing a remarkable range of topics — from mysticism and syncretism to the problems of collective memory, from the history of slavery in Brazil to world-wide race relations — the work is shaped by the author's rich and original conceptual framework. The result is a compelling study of the origins and growth of a native religious environment.
The English translation is supplemented with a biographical foreword by Richard Price and a thematic introduction by Brazilian sociologist Duglas T. Monteiro.
Biography
At the time of his death in 1974, Roger Bastide was a professor in the Faculté de Lettres et Sciences Humaines at the Sorbonne. Of a rich scholarly legacy of some thirty books and well over three hundred articles, his acknowledged masterwork is The African Religions of Brazil.
loading...