61. Religion Match any of the words. african religions; Afrobrazilian religions; Afro-Caribbeanreligions; Agnosticism; Animism; http://www.clickandsearch.com/links/religion/index.shtml

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62. Daniel Pellizzari Refutes Madison's Claims brazilian african religions are the result of many influences besides Yoruba myth,and hermetic black magic is one of them, along with portuguese folklore http://www.necronomi.com/projects/madison/danp.html

First Refutation I'm a brazilian magician, and even though I'm not an initiate of african-syncretic religions, I'm on direct contact with them since I was a child - as almost any brazilian, even those from regions of massive european colonization. I attended to a vast number of circles from many brazilian branches of this tradition: Candomble, Macumba, Quimbanda, Nacao, Umbanda and Xango. I have many friends who are initiates of one of this branches, and sometimes I even use some african-syncretic elements on my practice. The recent postings about NYC Voudu, Pomba Gira Botanica and Madison caught my attention. This woman claims familiarity with brazilian african-syncretic religions, but doesn't seem to have a minimal notion about Candomble, Quimbanda or any of the branches. Let's choose a Madison's text. Here it goes: > Sat. Aug 24th at 3pm there will be a circle for Pomba Gira, the > Brazillian goddess of sex, death and the crossroads. This will > be a circle of dance and positive physical transcendence, >(Overcoming obstacles and broadening perspectives.) (NYC Vodou.) > Please bring food, drink, spiritual books for the free lending >library and canned food the homeless if possible. Please be >clean sane and sober. Seven lines, lots of nonsense.

63. Babelguides: War Of The Saints In a very relaxed way Jorge Amado writes about the famous brazilian ‘syncretism’;the blending of Roman Catholicism with african religions, about high art http://www.babelguides.com/view/work/15795

ABOUT HELP JOIN HOME ... FORUM You are at Home Books Brazilian Literature Jorge Amado War of the Saints :: site in beta Browse Books Brazilian Dutch + Flemish French German ... Search for Books Login Login Create account Username: Password: Forgot your password? Enter your unsername only, and click reset password Create an account if you don't yet have a username. Get the Newsletter War of the Saints by Jorge Amado Translated by Gregory Rabassa Original title: Original language: Portuguese Country: Brazil Published by Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group (1995, Paperback, ISBN 0553374400) Dimensions (in inches): 1.04 x 8.98 x 5.99 Publisher Unknown Publisher Unknown Publisher Unknown Bantam: NY Review by M-AD The writer amused himself with The War of the Saints prejudices and familiar racial intermingling, blending his fictional characters with real celebrities of Bahian society and real history with a well-written plot that joins together reality, invention and the supernatural. The land of Bahia, where fate had led him to live and work, a land where everything is intermixed and commingled, where no one can separate virtue from sin, or distinguish the certain from the absurd, or draw the line

64. JOHN GRAY 1991. Bibliography. In brazilian RHYTHMS FOR DRUMSET by Duduka da Fonseca andBob Weiner. Soul Force 101 african religions in Brazil.” Oshun, Vol. http://barc0.tripod.com/pl.html

Get Five DVDs for $.49 each. Join now. Tell me when this page is updated JOHN GRAY GRANTS AND HONORS 1991. BLACK THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE named one of Choice Magazine's "Outstanding Academic Books, 1990." 1989. BLACKS IN CLASSICAL MUSIC named one of Choice Magazine's "Outstanding Academic Books, 1988." 1989. John Anson Kittredge Educational Fund [grant] PUBLICATIONS (Books and Edited Volumes) In Progress. BLACK MUSIC IN THE DIASPORA: A Bibliographical Guide. Multi-volume work on Black sacred, folk and popular music idioms in the African Diaspora. 1993. ACTION ART: A Bibliography of Artists' Performance from Futurism to Fluxus and Beyond. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. 343pp. 1991. FIRE MUSIC: A Bibliography of the New Jazz, 1959-1990. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. 515pp. 1991. "Bibliography." In BRAZILIAN RHYTHMS FOR DRUMSET by Duduka da Fonseca and Bob Weiner. New York: Manhattan Music Publications; distributed by DCI Music Video, pp. 78-79. 1991. AFRICAN MUSIC: A Bibliographical Guide to the Traditional, Popular, Art, and Liturgical Musics of Sub-Saharan Africa. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. 499pp. 1990. "Bibliography." In AFRO-CUBAN RYTHMS FOR DRUMSET by Frank Malabe and Bob Weiner. New York: Manhattan Music Inc.; distributed by DCI Music Video (541 Ave. of the Americas, New York, NY 10011), pp. 63-64.

65. Agnosticism/Atheism the center of Candomble and other traditional african religions. As a resultof internal migration during this century, Afrobrazilian and syncretistic http://atheism.about.com/library/irf/irf00/bl_irf_brazil00.htm

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66. Brazilian Studies Committee and ethnic complexity among africanAmericans Country fas.harvard.edu Research InterestsBrazilian literature, culture of History of religions, Harvard Center http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~drclas/regions/brazil/brazstudcommittee.html

"Nature and the Inner Self, Flower Series" by Touth Andrade Sensualidade Oil on Canvas, .6 x.7 meters Lixia Brasileira Oil on Canvas, .4 x.5 meters Oil on Canvas, .6 x.7 meters Oil on Canvas, .6 x .7 meters Brazilian Studies Committee David Maybury-Lewis (Chair of Brazilian Studies Committee) Professor of Anthropology; Curator of South American Ethnology in the Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology Anthropology http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/anthro/ Peabody Museum 47 Tel: 495-2233 Fax: 496-8041 dhlewis@fas.harvard.edu Research Interests: Indigenous peoples of the Americas; ethnicity and the state; development and national agendas; comparative study of violence in the Americas Country or Countries: Brazil, Latin America John Coatsworth Monroe Gutman Professor of Latin American Affairs, Director, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies DRCLAS http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~drclas/

67. J. Lorand Matory Matory studies the diversity of african, african American, and his study of such LatinAmerican religions as Haitian Vodu, brazilian Candomblé, and http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~afroam/Faculty/J__Lorand_Matory/j__lorand_matory.htm

BIOGRAPHY CURRICULUM VITAE J. Lorand Matory Professor of Afro-American Studies and of Anthropology Professor Matory studies the diversity of African, African American, and Latin American culture, with an emphasis on how differently various peoples understand gender, sexuality, class, race, and national identity. In particular, he is a renowned expert on Brazil and on the Yoruba civilization of West Africa, which is world famous for its religious complexity and artistic creativity. He is equally noted for his study of such Latin American religions as Haitian "Vodu," Brazilian Candomblé, and Cuban Santería, which are rooted in Africa, but, in the wake of immigration from the Caribbean to the U. S., have deeply penetrated our urban landscape. Professor Matory has also engaged the controversial subject of ethnic diversity within black North America, which includes immigrants from many nations as well as Americans of African descent who have not always considered themselves black, such as mulattoes and bi-racials, Louisiana Creoles, New Jersey's Ramapo Mountain people, and most of the Indian tribes east of the Mississippi. His study of diverse religions and cultures is the basis of much lecturing and writing on the poetics and politics of daily language in the United States—that is, on how often metaphors of lightness, darkness, time, money, size, direction, and so forth, which are peculiar to our culture, guide and misguide our thinking about the world.

68. Untitled Brazil, Bruneau's The Political Transformation of the brazilian Catholic Church andthe required reading from Roger Bastide, The african religions of Brazil http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~latam/syll/syllmodbrazil.html

Course Syllabi) E-mail: dutra@humanitas.ucsb.edu Reader: Paul Brasil - Ellison 4807 (E-mail: brasil@humanitas.ucsb.edu ORIENTATION: March 28 I. BRAZILIAN INDEPENDENCE. March 30, April 4. II. THE EMPIRE IN BRAZIL, 1822-1889. April 6, 11, 13. BLUEBOOKS: Turn in two small 24-page bluebooks on April 18. Do not write your name on them but do place inside a piece of paper with your name. III. SLAVERY, ABOLITION AND RACE RELATIONS IN BRAZIL 1808-1888. April 13, 18, 20. IV. THE OLD REPUBLIC, 1889-1930. April 25, 27. MIDTERM EXAM: May 2 (Monday) 7:00-8:30 PM From the discussion questions in Topics I through IV, at least four questions will be chosen for the midterm exam. The student will answer two of them for 40% of the grade. There will be at least one question from each topic. There will be special emphasis on lectures and the required reading. THERE WILL BE NO MAKE-UP MIDTERM EXAM. STUDENTS WHO MISS THE MIDTERM WILL TAKE A SPECIAL EXAM ON TOPICS I-IV, BASED ON THE REQUIRED READING AND LECTURES WITH NEW QUESTIONS (THAT ARE NOT ON THE SYLLABUS), FROM 9:00 PM TO 10:30 PM ON THE NIGHT OF THE FINAL. V. THE BACKLANDS VS. THE COAST: TRADITIONAL SOCIETY VS.

69. Adherents.com brazilian religions are the most important in brazilian society. Umbanda, for example,is one of the most rapidly growing sects. Attracting both african and non http://www.adherents.com/Na_14.html

Adherents.com 42,669 adherent statistic citations : membership and geography data for 4,000+ religions, churches, tribes, etc. Index back to African Traditional Religion, Zimbabwe African Traditional Religion, continued... Group Where Number of Adherents % of total pop. Number of congreg./ churches/ units Number of countries Year Source Quote/ Notes African Traditional Religion Zimbabwe *LINK* web page: "Geographical Distribution of Followers of ATR in African Nations "; (viewed 8 Nov 2001); Arranged by Chidi Denis Isizoh from the entries made in: Barret, D.B. World Christian Encylopedia . Nairobi (1982). Table: "Geographical Distribution of Adherents of African Traditional Religion in the Continent of Africa " African Traditional Religion Zimbabwe *LINK* web page: "Geographical Distribution of Followers of ATR in African Nations "; (viewed 8 Nov 2001); Arranged by Chidi Denis Isizoh from the entries made in: Barret, D.B. World Christian Encylopedia . Nairobi (1982). Table: "Geographical Distribution of Adherents of African Traditional Religion in the Continent of Africa " African Traditional Religion Zimbabwe *LINK* web page: "Geographical Distribution of Followers of ATR in African Nations "; (viewed 8 Nov 2001); Arranged by Chidi Denis Isizoh from the entries made in: Barret, D.B.

70. Adherents.com: Religion Statistics Geography, Church Statistics Resources for research into world religions, large and (very) small. Includes links to websites, research Category Society Religion and Spirituality Sociology of Religion...... Union First Colored Methodist Protestant Church african Universal Church africanZion Church (2 recs.) AfroAmerican Army Afro-brazilian religions (6 recs http://www.adherents.com/

A B C D ... Z Adherents.com - Religion Statistics - Church Statistics Adherents.com is a growing collection of over 41,000 adherent statistics and religious geography citations references to published membership/adherent statistics and congregation statistics for over 4,200 religions , churches, denominations, religious bodies, faith groups, tribes, cultures, movements, ultimate concerns, etc. Basically, researchers can use this site to answer such questions as "How many Quakers live in Indiana?" "What are the major religions of Nigeria?" , or "What percentage of the world is Buddhist?" We present data from both primary research sources such as government census reports, statistical sampling surveys and organizational reporting, as well as citations from secondary literature which mention adherent statistics. Adherents.com is an Internet initiative and is not affiliated with any religious, political, educational, or commercial organization. Adherents.com is the 2nd most frequently visited general religion site on the Internet. Religion by Location Index * Religion by Name Index * Questions? Try our

71. Clarke of millenarianism in new religions of african, Japanese and including a course inNew religions for both degree in Portuguese, Afrobrazilian and Religious http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/humanities/theorelig/clarke.html

Homepage Contact Search Professor Peter Clarke Peter Clarke is the Professor of the History and Sociology of Religion. He joined the Department in 1982 after lecturing in African history at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria. His research field is the sociological study of religion with special reference to the rise, appeal and impact of new religions, particularly African and Japanese religions in Brazil. He has also worked on Islam in Europe and Africa. Given the vast and diverse nature of the field, his approach is necessarily comparative, in line with Weber and Durkheim. He has also written on broader theoretical and interdisciplinary issues. Professor Clarke is currently engaged in a comprehensive study of millenarianism in new religions of African, Japanese and Islamic origin. Professor Clarke has initiated and developed both undergraduate and postgraduate courses relating to his research, including a course in New Religions for both undergraduate and Masters degrees, and a combined honours degree in Portuguese, Afro-Brazilian and Religious Studies. He has established a Centre for New Religions as a resource base for the study and teaching of New Religions; the Centres journal which he founded, The Journal of Contemporary Religion

72. CSWR Newsletter Fall 1993 the enthronement ceremonies of West african kings in as they carry their histories,religions, and cultures of Africa in an Afrobrazilian Religion, James http://www.hds.harvard.edu/cswr/publications/1-1dis.htm

publications: cswr news: CSWR News / fall 1993 vol 1 no 1 back to contents Search CSWR: Discovery and Invention: Religious Contact in the Americas The Center's 1992-1993 Lecture and Colloquia Series presented nine views of the cauldron of American religious life. Beginning in October 1992, the series explored the impact of religions on one another in America in the 500 years since the landfall of Christopher Columbus in October 1492. Charles Long (Professor of the History of Religions, African Religions, and Religions of the Western Hemisphere, University of California, Santa Barbara) explored "The Problematics of a Commentary on The Souls of Black Folk ." He explained his reasons for writing a commentary on this particular work of W.E.B. DuBois and addressed his concerns for the future of the study of religion in the academic community. "If religious studies were to continue seriously, some form of new data had to appear as problematical, that is, problematical as always having been there but never having been discovered." Long began, therefore, "a relocation and a reallocation of the problems of the study of religion," turning to DuBois's Souls for an interpretation of the New World, for "the arche of the soul." As Charles Long observes, DuBois orients us to another country of the soul, the arena in which the soul must constitute itself. All our spiritual striving is in fact an orientational meditation of the new country of the soul. . . a soul made to bear the weight of its extension, a soul both inward and outward, a soul that partakes of the blackness of flesh as well as the thickness and terror of time. A soul dual or plural in its very constitution, textured in the thick realities of time, vulnerable to the valences of power. A soul seeking a world equal to the terrain of its reality. This is a New World soul. . . . DuBois's soul probes and searches for the proper locus for the souls of black folk. And in so doing, he raises the question of the proper locus of any soul in this new world.

73. Academic Plan For The African American Studies Program Traditional african religions. african American Studies in Music. At least halfof the brazilian population is, to some degree, of african descent. http://uw-docs.uwyo.edu/theplan/Plans/AS/African-American-Studies/plan-african-a

Academic Planning African American Studies University of Wyoming Robert Hinton, Director hinton@uwyo.edu planning.04(21 December 1998)working.06/C: Academic Planning African American Studies University of Wyoming Introduction In 1991, a "black student-athlete" at the University of Wyoming came very close to stomping the life out of a "white fraternity boy," who had made a racist remark. This was only the most vicious of a number of violent confrontations, around the campus, fueled by racism, machismo, and alcohol. University officials called in the Community Relations Service of the United States Department of Justice, which assigned Wilbur R. Reed to act as mediator. In his report, Mr. Reed made many recommendations. One of the few to be acted on recommended that the university implement a racial/ethnic studies program designed to offer courses specializing in cultural diversity (multicultural education) and requiring all students to take at least one course in this African American Studies became part of the curriculum of the University of Wyoming a full generation after the peak of the "Black Studies" movement of the 1960s. The late arrival may have had both negative and positive consequences. The culture of the "white fraternity boy" did not have the advantage of having its racist assumptions, about "black student-athletes," challenged by a generation of courses on African and African American culture and society. Arriving late, African American Studies at Wyoming avoided many of the excesses of early "Black Studies."

74. Religion And Magic The africanderived religions of Brazil are As a famous brazilian once said of theserituals, they invite the gods to a party ..the gods come. . http://www.polk.cc.fl.us/INSTRUCT/ALSS/Charlesf/ANT1000/LECTURES/relmag.htm

Religion and Magic T his week we will return to a a phenomenon we examined earlier so we can unlock some of the secrets we left behind. Some of you wondered what you were seeing when we did the Video Observation Activitynow is your chance to find out. Let's go back to Brazil. As was mentioned earlier in this course, Brazil had a long history of slave traffic, trading and use. Due to all of the cultural mixing, language, religion, cuisine and many other aspects of contemporary Brazilian life are richly infused with African elements. We have already discussed the interesting pattern of Brazilian race relations and have seen the many categories used to describe the diverse phenotypes of this population. We also considered the connection between social status and race. Now we will turn our attention to religion. Brazil is a country of Catholics. In fact 95%+ of all Brazilians claim to be Catholic. For many, to simply say they are Catholic is misleading as many of them lead dual religious lives. A good many Brazilians go to mass on Sunday and to their local (or not so local) terreiro , or religious cult house some other day of the week. Brazilians involved in these religions see no conflict between their Catholicism and their non-European practiceswe will discover more about this shortly.

75. Universitycommunications.uvm.edu/newsarchives/i.%20Fall%201992/Lecture-on-Religi Her academic specialty is the african diaspora in Besides using religions to tracecultural influences, Harris into the major house of brazilian Candomble, a http://universitycommunications.uvm.edu/newsarchives/i. Fall 1992/Lecture-on-Rel

76. The Contribution Of Africa To The Religious Heritage Of The World: Excerpts From However, it is also real in the different Afrobrazilian and Afro-Caribbean religions,and in the spirituality of african-American Churches and in african http://www.wcc-coe.org/wcc/what/interreligious/cd37-13.html

The contribution of Africa to the religious heritage of the world Excerpts from the welcome address Hans Ucko The World Council of Churches rededicated itself at the Eighth Assembly in Harare, Zimbabwe 1998 to "the African dream and agenda for the 21st century" and adopted a statement, which expressed a will and desire to engage creatively and in solidarity with Africa, stimulating a new way of looking at Africa. It is a focus on Africa. Such a focus is needed and the WCC Assembly did not have to go long to explain why the churches ought to be engaged for the well-being of Africa: half of Africa is at present at war in their own countries, the refugee crisis, the effects of globalisation, poverty, terrorism, the health crisis and the spread of Aids. The problems, which are certainly not to be ignored, do however shape an image of Africa as a continent full of needs, which has little to offer. The most common seems to be to focus on the continent of Africa, not from the point of view of its positive achievements, but from its problems. This consultation, which we hope will yield fruits for an ongoing process on the theme "The contribution of Africa to the religious heritage of the world", should challenge the perception of Africa as being mainly on the receiving end or as a source of poor health and ongoing conflicts. What prompts us is not apologetics but as far as we can understand it, we would like to provide space for the integrity of Africa, because we have seen and understood that Africa is vibrant and present way beyond its geographical location.

77. Afro.html One reason for the successful adaptation of african religions in Bahia wassimilarities in West african and brazilian physical environments. http://www.geo.hunter.cuny.edu/~timcala/afro.html

Afro-Brazilian Religions of Candomble and Umbanda Timothy Calabrese May 23, 2000 The nation of Brazil provides a remarkable example of religious syncretism in the New World. The creative blending of Catholicism and African religions, while not unique to Brazil, has served to differentiate Brazilian culture from its South American neighbors. This paper will compare and contrast two Brazilian religions, Candomble and Umbanda. Both religions share many elements, including Catholic and African cosmologies, but represent racial, class, and urbanization differences in different regions of Brazil. This comparison will framed in the context of the concepts introduced in this class. These concepts are "culture area", "cultural diffusion", "cultural ecology", "cultural landscape", and "cultural integration". I will define these concepts first within the framework of Candomble and then compare them as they apply to Umbanda. The culture area of Candomble is centered on the city of Salvador in the northeastern state of Bahia. This region of Brazil served as the agricultural backbone of the 17 th With the limited Catholic Church presence limited to the cities of northeastern Brazil, religious instruction of African slaves was left to individual slave owners. Since they were more interested in the business of the plantation, Catholic instruction was incomplete and consisted mostly on the recitation of a few simple prayers. Slaves were grouped into ethnically and linguistically heterogeneous crews, to limit the chances of insurrection. In contrast, urban slaves were grouped by place of origin, so that small crews could work independently without supervision. These urban slaves form "confraternities" and served as the first black social organizations. One manifestation of these confraternities was the small black brotherhoods, "irmandades", set up under Church guidance. One slave would be instructed in the ways of Catholic worship and served as a surrogate priest, administering to other slaves in the confraternity. (Conrad 1983, Mattoso 1986)

78. Greenwood Publishing Group I1 ideology, rituals, and ethos from african religions. Journal of by Peter B. Clarke Nonafrican Spiritual Entities in Afro-brazilian Religion and http://info.greenwood.com/books/0313301/031330128x.html

79. Www.orisha.cc Ideas and issues for african Americans considering the practice of West and Central african Traditional Category Society Religion and Spirituality african Traditional...... practiced of african traditional religions in America is oriented to the traditionalafrican continental approaches or the Afrobrazilian ( Candomble ) school. http://www.orisha.cc/

80. Afro-brazilian Religions (Candomble, Umbanda and Macumba) from Divine Inspiration From Benin to Bahia Table of Contents Afro-brazilian religions such as Candomblé, Umbanda and Macumba are integral components to the culture of Brazil. http://ils.unc.edu/~holml/pathfinder/path.htm

Afro-Brazilian Religions (Candomble, Umbanda and Macumba) - from Divine Inspiration: From Benin to Bahia A Pathfinder Table of Contents Introduction Scope and Audience Key to Libraries Browsing Areas ... Electronic Sources/ Web sites Introduction Macumba appears to be a pejorative term for Afro-Brazilian religions (Brown, 1994), sometimes used in connection with the black magic or sorcery elements of these religions (Giobellina Brumana, 1989), although many in Brazil use it as a general term for all of the Afro-Brazilian sects in the country. (Bramly, 1977). Others use the word Macumba to address the trance and spirit possession aspects of Afro-Brazilian religions (Giobellina Brumana, 1989) or limit its usage to describe the religious practices in the Rio de Janeiro area (Pereira de Queiroz, 1989). Scope and Audience This pathfinder will assist undergraduate students in introductory religion, sociology or anthropology courses in gaining a better understanding of these religions in order to compare them with similar religions and view them in the context of the larger Brazilian culture. The pathfinder provides sources for brief introductory information as well as slightly more in-depth works for additional study. Furthermore, there are a few sources mentioned in the art, music or dance associated with these religions if readers would like to branch out in other directions. All sources are located on either the UNC or Duke campus; many can be found at both universities. Quite a few of the books at Davis were on loan this semester; however between the two campuses there is a good selection of materials. An undergraduate at either school could find enough materials on his/her campus for research purposes.

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