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A comprehensive look at the development, beliefs, and practices of Candomblé, exploring its transformation from a secret society of slaves - hidden, persecuted, and marginalized - to a public religion that is very much part of Brazilian culture.

Candomble (Religion) --- Secrecy. --- 299.6*8 --- Concealment --- Privacy --- Hiding places --- Candomblé (Cult) --- Afro-Brazilian cults --- Godsdiensten van de zwarten in Midden- en Zuid-Amerika. Voodoo --- Candomblé (Religion) --- Afro-Brazilian cults - Brazil --- 299.6*8 Godsdiensten van de zwarten in Midden- en Zuid-Amerika. Voodoo --- Afro-Brazilian cults - Brazil. --- Candomblé (Religion) --- Secrecy --- religion --- Brazil --- Candomblé --- study of religion --- syncretism --- Afro-Brazilian indigenous religions --- Brazilian society --- nationalism --- Brazilian culture --- slavery --- secret societies --- Voudu --- Santeria --- ritual practices --- national identity --- religion and society

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The word "possession" is anything but transparent, especially as it developed in the context of the African Americas. There it referred variously to spirits, material goods, and people. It served as a watershed term marking both transactions in which people were made into things - via slavery - and ritual events by which the thingification of people was revised. In Spirited Things, Paul Christopher Johnson gathers together essays by leading anthropologists in the Americas that reopen the concept of possession on these two fronts in order to examine the relationship between African religions in the Atlantic and the economies that have historically shaped - and continue to shape - the cultures that practice them. Exploring the way spirit possessions were framed both by material things - including plantations, the Catholic church, the sea, and the phonograph - as well as by the legacy of slavery, they offer a powerful new way of understanding the Atlantic world. -- from back cover.

Afro-Caribbean cults. --- Spirit possession --- Blacks --- Afro-Caribbean cults. --- Blacks --- Spirit possession. --- Afrokaribischer Kult. --- Besessenheit. --- Religion --- Religion. --- Latin America.

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"Secrecy is a central and arguably integral component of all religious traditions. Not limited simply to religious groups that engage in clandestine activities such as clerical abuse or terrorism, secrecy is inherent in the very fabric of religion itself. Its importance has perhaps never been more acutely relevant than in our own historical moment, particularly in the wake of 9/11 and other acts of religious terrorism and the rise of increasingly invasive national security states that often target religious minorities and pose profound challenges to the ideals of privacy and religious freedom. As such, questions of secrecy, privacy, surveillance, and security are among the most central and contested issues of twenty-first century religious life. The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Secrecy is an outstanding reference source for the key topics, problems and debates in this crucial field and is the first collection of its kind.

Secrecy --- Religious aspects. --- Religious aspects

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