TY  - BOOK
AU  - Selka,Stephen
TI  - Religion and the politics of ethnic identity in Bahia, Brazil
T2  - New World diasporas
SN  - 9780813039923
AV  - BL2590.B7 S45 2007eb
U1  - 305.800981/42 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Gainesville
PB  - University Press of Florida
KW  - Religion and politics
KW  - Brazil
KW  - Salvador
KW  - Ethnicity
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Religion et politique
KW  - Brésil
KW  - Ethnicité
KW  - Aspect religieux
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Cultural
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Discrimination & Race Relations
KW  - Minority Studies
KW  - fast
KW  - Religion
KW  - Ethnische Identität
KW  - gnd
KW  - idszbz
KW  - Politik
KW  - Ethnizität
KW  - Salvador (Brazil)
KW  - Bahia
KW  - Schwärze
KW  - Bahia (Staat)
KW  - Schwarze
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-168) and index; Religion and Race in Brazil -- Catholicism and Afro-Brazilian Identity -- Candomblé, Afro-Brazilian Culture, and Anti-Racism -- Alternative Identities, Emergent Politics --The Politics of Afro-Brazilian Identity
N2  - Brazilians of African descent draw upon both Christian and African diasporic religions to construct their racial identities in a variety of intriguing ways. Focusing on the Reconcavo region of northeastern Brazil - known for its rich Afro-Brazilian traditions and as a center of racial consciousness in the country - Stephen Selka provides a nuanced and sophisticated ethnography that examines what it means to be black in Brazil. Selka examines how Evangelical Protestantism, Candomble (traditional Afro-Brazilian religion), and Catholicism - especially progressive Catholicism - are deployed in discursive struggles concerning racism and identity. In the process, he provides a model of wedding abstract theory with concrete details of everyday life. Revealing the complexity and sometimes contradictory aspects of Afro-Brazilian religious practices and racial identity, Selka brings a balanced perspective to polarized discussions of Brazilian racial politics
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