TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sweet,James H.
TI  - Recreating Africa: culture, kinship, and religion in the African-Portuguese world, 1441-1770 
SN  - 0807828084 (alk. paper)
AV  - F2659.N4 .S94 2003
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Blacks
KW  - Brazil
KW  - Religion
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Slavery and the church
KW  - History
KW  - Catholic Church
KW  - Afro-Brazilian cults
KW  - Civilization
KW  - African influences
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-285) and index; Part I. Living and dying in the African-Portuguese diaspora -- Demography, distribution, and diasporic streams -- Kinship, family, and household formation -- Disease, mortality, and master power -- Part II. African religious responses -- Catholic vs. "other" in the world of believers -- Theory and praxis in the study of African religions -- African divination in the diaspora -- Calundus, curing, and medicine in the colonial world -- Witchcraft, ritual, and resistance in the African-Portuguese diaspora -- Part III. Africans and the Catholic Church -- African Catholicism in the Portuguese world -- The impacts of African religious beliefs on Brazilian Catholicism
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0708/2003001194.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/unc041/2003001194.html
ER  -