Paper, Ink, Vodun, and the Inquisition: Tracing Power, Slavery, and Witchcraft in the Early Modern Portuguese Atlantic
In 1730, the Inquisition of Lisbon arrested José Francisco Pereira, a man raised in West Africa and enslaved in Brazil then Portugal, who had learned along his transatlantic journeys the art of making amulets known in the eighteenth century Portuguese-speaking world as bolsas de mandinga. Mixing Eur...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
[2020]
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Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Year: 2020, Volume: 88, Issue: 2, Pages: 460-504 |
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Portugal
/ Slave trade
/ Voodooism
/ Amulet
/ Interreligiosity
/ Inquisition
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| RelBib Classification: | AX Inter-religious relations BS Traditional African religions KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KBH Iberian Peninsula KDB Roman Catholic Church |
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