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Black Atlantic Religion illuminates the mutual transformation of African and African-American cultures, highlighting the example of the Afro-Brazilian Candomblé religion. This book contests both the recent conviction that transnationalism is new and the long-held supposition that African culture endures in the Americas only among the poorest and most isolated of black populations. In fact, African culture in the Americas has most flourished among the urban and the prosperous, who, through travel, commerce, and literacy, were well exposed to other cultures. Their embrace of African religion is less a "survival," or inert residue of the African past, than a strategic choice in their circum-Atlantic, multicultural world. With counterparts in Nigeria, the Benin Republic, Haiti, Cuba, Trinidad, and the United States, Candomblé is a religion of spirit possession, dance, healing, and blood sacrifice. Most surprising to those who imagine Candomblé and other such religions as the products of anonymous folk memory is the fact that some of this religion's towering leaders and priests have been either well-traveled writers or merchants, whose stake in African-inspired religion was as much commercial as spiritual. Morever, they influenced Africa as much as Brazil. Thus, for centuries, Candomblé and its counterparts have stood at the crux of enormous transnational forces. Vividly combining history and ethnography, Matory spotlights a so-called "folk" religion defined not by its closure or internal homogeneity but by the diversity of its connections to classes and places often far away. Black Atlantic Religion sets a new standard for the study of transnationalism in its subaltern and often ancient manifestations.

Candomble (Religion) --- #SBIB:39A10 --- #SBIB:39A74 --- Candomblé (Cult) --- Afro-Brazilian cults --- Antropologie: religie, riten, magie, hekserij --- Etnografie: Amerika --- Candomblé (Religion) --- Candomblé (Religion). --- Candomblé (Religion) --- Candomble.

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Blacks --- Syncretism (Religion) --- Afro-Brazilian cults --- Religion --- Eclecticism (Religion) --- Religious syncretism --- Unionism (Religion) --- Religions --- Negroes --- Ethnology --- Cults, Afro-Brazilian --- Cults --- Black persons --- Black people

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Afro-Brazilian cults --- Religion and sociology --- Latin America --- Religion. --- Afro-Brazilian cults. --- -Religion and society --- Religious sociology --- Society and religion --- Sociology, Religious --- Sociology and religion --- Sociology of religion --- Sociology --- Cults, Afro-Brazilian --- Cults --- -Latin America --- Religion and society --- Religion and sociology - Latin America --- Latin America - Religion.

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Afro-Brazilian cults --- Blacks --- Festivals --- Cultes afro-brésiliens --- Noirs --- Fêtes --- Social life and customs --- Moeurs et coutumes --- Algeria --- Politics and government --- 1980 --- -Islam --- Black people --- Social life and customs. --- Afro-Brazilian religions.

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Roger Bastide developed the theory of acculturation which provides a framework for understanding contact between different cultures and beliefs. Bastide on Religion offers a clear introduction to the life and work of this influential scholar. The volume focuses on Bastide's study of Afro-Brazilian religions, in particular his study of Candomblé, a religion born from the contact between African and Brazilian cultures. The book outlines Bastide's work on acculturation, his concept of the relationship between religion and culture, and his challenge to many dominant approaches to economic development.

Religion. --- Candomblé (Religion) --- Candomblé (Cult) --- Afro-Brazilian cults --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Theology --- Bastide, Roger, --- Bahia (Brazil : State) --- Bahia (Brazil : Captaincy) --- Bahia (Brazil : Province) --- Religious life and customs. --- Candomble (Religion) --- Candomble.