The Multiple Agencies of Afro-Brazilian Religions
The debates on identity politics and the invention of tradition led the study of Afro-Brazilian religions to a certain impasse in the 1990s. However, in the last several years, the field has been totally renewed, although in different directions. In this article we will consider some of these new tr...
| Published in: | Religion and society |
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| Authors: | ; |
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Berghahn
[2012]
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Religion and society
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| Further subjects: | B
Spirit Possession
B Agency B Identity Politics B Fetishism B invention of tradition B Afro-Brazilian religions B Sorcery B Atlantic World |
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| Summary: | The debates on identity politics and the invention of tradition led the study of Afro-Brazilian religions to a certain impasse in the 1990s. However, in the last several years, the field has been totally renewed, although in different directions. In this article we will consider some of these new trends, from a wider historical engagement with the Atlantic world, through the religious field and the public sphere, to new approaches to spirit possession and cosmology. Our objective is to assess the extent to which these new debates have managed to overcome this impasse. |
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| ISSN: | 2150-9301 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religion and society
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3167/arrs.2012.030105 |