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Relocating the sacred : African divinities and Brazilian cultural hybridities / Niyi Afolabi.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: SUNY series, Afro-Latinx futuresPublisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2022Copyright date: ©2022Description: 1 online resource (x, 356 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781438490731
  • 1438490739
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Relocating the sacred.DDC classification:
  • 299.60981 23/eng/20221027
LOC classification:
  • BL2590.B7 A36 2022eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Bahia: Yoruba Diasporic Domain of Activating the Sacred -- Pierre Verger and Yoruba Ritual Altars in Brazil -- Matriarchs of Candomblé: Mãe Stella de Oxóssi, Mãe Beata de Yemonjá, and Mãe Valnizia Bianch -- Jorge Amado and Vasconcelos Maia: The Sea/River as Iemojá/Oxum's Domain -- Abdias Nascimento and Nelson Rodrigues: The Fallen Angel as Betrayal of Blackness -- Zora Seljan and Alfredo Dias Gomes: Sacred Feminine Solidarities and Sango's Revenge -- Raul Longo and Robson Pinheiro: Afro-Brazilian Deities in Literary Rituals -- Cléo Martins and Chynae: Oiá and Oxossi in Invocations and Encounters -- Filhos de Gandhi and Cortejo Afro: Candomblé in the Carnivalesque Frame -- Give Us This Day Our Daily Acarajé.
Summary: "Maps manifestations of the sacred and religious syncretism in Afro-Brazilian cultural forms"-- Provided by publisher.Summary: "By embracing African deities as a source of creative inspiration and resistance, Afro-Brazilians have appropriated syncretism as a means of not only popularizing African culture but also decolonizing themselves from the past shame of slavery. This book maps the role of African heritage in--and relocation of the sacred to--three sites of Brazilian cultural production: ritual altars, literature, and carnival culture."-- Provided by publisher.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)3279097

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Bahia: Yoruba Diasporic Domain of Activating the Sacred -- Pierre Verger and Yoruba Ritual Altars in Brazil -- Matriarchs of Candomblé: Mãe Stella de Oxóssi, Mãe Beata de Yemonjá, and Mãe Valnizia Bianch -- Jorge Amado and Vasconcelos Maia: The Sea/River as Iemojá/Oxum's Domain -- Abdias Nascimento and Nelson Rodrigues: The Fallen Angel as Betrayal of Blackness -- Zora Seljan and Alfredo Dias Gomes: Sacred Feminine Solidarities and Sango's Revenge -- Raul Longo and Robson Pinheiro: Afro-Brazilian Deities in Literary Rituals -- Cléo Martins and Chynae: Oiá and Oxossi in Invocations and Encounters -- Filhos de Gandhi and Cortejo Afro: Candomblé in the Carnivalesque Frame -- Give Us This Day Our Daily Acarajé.

"Maps manifestations of the sacred and religious syncretism in Afro-Brazilian cultural forms"-- Provided by publisher.

"By embracing African deities as a source of creative inspiration and resistance, Afro-Brazilians have appropriated syncretism as a means of not only popularizing African culture but also decolonizing themselves from the past shame of slavery. This book maps the role of African heritage in--and relocation of the sacred to--three sites of Brazilian cultural production: ritual altars, literature, and carnival culture."-- Provided by publisher.

Print version record.