The Social Life of Spirits

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022608180X
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Book Synopsis The Social Life of Spirits by : Ruy Blanes

Download or read book The Social Life of Spirits written by Ruy Blanes and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-11-22 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spirits can be haunters, informants, possessors, and transformers of the living, but more than anything anthropologists have understood them as representations of something else—symbols that articulate facets of human experience in much the same way works of art do. The Social Life of Spirits challenges this notion. By stripping symbolism from the way we think about the spirit world, the contributors of this book uncover a livelier, more diverse environment of entities—with their own histories, motivations, and social interactions—providing a new understanding of spirits not as symbols, but as agents. The contributors tour the spiritual globe—the globe of nonthings—in essays on topics ranging from the Holy Ghost in southern Africa to spirits of the “people of the streets” in Rio de Janeiro to dragons and magic in Britain. Avoiding a reliance on religion and belief systems to explain the significance of spirits, they reimagine spirits in a rich network of social trajectories, ultimately arguing for a new ontological ground upon which to examine the intangible world and its interactions with the tangible one.

Handbook of Contemporary Religions in Brazil

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004322132
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Book Synopsis Handbook of Contemporary Religions in Brazil by : Bettina Schmidt

Download or read book Handbook of Contemporary Religions in Brazil written by Bettina Schmidt and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-09-19 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Brill Handbook of Contemporary Religions in Brazil provides an unprecedented overview of Brazil’s religious landscape. It offers a full, balanced and contextualized portrait of contemporary religions in Brazil, bringing together leading scholars from both Brazil and abroad, drawing on both fieldwork and detailed reviews of the literatures. For the first time a single volume offers overviews by leading scholars of the full range of Brazilian religions, alongside more theoretically oriented discussions of relevant religious and culture themes. This Handbook’s three sections present specific religions and groups of traditions, Brazilian religions in the diaspora, and issues in Brazilian religions (e.g., women, possession, politics, race and material culture).

The African Religions of Brazil

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Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801886249
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (862 download)

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Book Synopsis The African Religions of Brazil by : Roger Bastide

Download or read book The African Religions of Brazil written by Roger Bastide and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2007-06-18 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monteiro.--John A. Coleman "Theological Studies"

O Espiritismo, a magia e as Sete Linhas de Umbanda

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Publisher : Fundamentos de Axé
ISBN 13 : 6580506016
Total Pages : 321 pages
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Book Synopsis O Espiritismo, a magia e as Sete Linhas de Umbanda by : Leal de Souza

Download or read book O Espiritismo, a magia e as Sete Linhas de Umbanda written by Leal de Souza and published by Fundamentos de Axé. This book was released on 2020-04-20 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trata-se de um livro histórico, considerado como o primeiro livro publicado a ter como tema as Sete Linhas de Umbanda e Demanda – suas rotinas, fundamentos e doutrina. Esse livro foi criado a partir da compilação dos artigos publicados por Leal de Souza, entre os anos de 1932 e 1933, no Diário de Notícias da então capital federal, o Rio de Janeiro. Além daqueles que estavam na primeira edição de seu livro, conseguimos resgatar outros 20 artigos, ainda inéditos, do autor. De terça a domingo, na primeira página do caderno de reportagens, Leal de Souza mostrava, com toda a clareza, os meandros de uma religião que acabara de nascer e que sofria grande repressão, inclusive, policial. Com suas palavras, buscava destruir o preconceito por meio da informação e a intolerância religiosa que perseguia seus irmãos. Temas e tabus, como despachos, orixás, vidência, obsessão e muitos outros são tratados com a desenvoltura de quem informa, com visão privilegiada, sem impor sua opinião. Esta nova edição contará com os seguintes paratextuais: - Prefácio de Nikolas Peripolli (médium umbandistas criador do projeto Umbandas e dirigente espiritual da Casa das Almas Santas e Benditas, além de ser palestrante e ministrar diversos cursos na área) - Posfácio de Diamantino Fernandes Trindade (Sacerdote do Templo Cristão Umbanda do Brasil e Ministro religioso da Casa de Cultura Umbanda do Brasil e autor com diversos livros publicados) - Texto de Leonardo Cunha (bisneto de Zélio Fernandino de Moraes e atual dirigente da Tenda Espírita Nossa Senhora da Piedade) - Texto de Maurício Ribeiro (doutor em comunicação e semiótica – PUC-SP – e pós-doutorando na ECO-UFRJ sobre a "construção do imaginário midiático da Umbanda") - Texto e pesquisa de Nathália Fernandes (historiadora, professora e mestre em História Social pela UFF – estudiosa sobre "Repressão policial às religiões de matriz afro-brasileira no período do Estado")

Umbanda E Sua História

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
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Book Synopsis Umbanda E Sua História by : Diamantino Fernandes Trindade

Download or read book Umbanda E Sua História written by Diamantino Fernandes Trindade and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Social Scientific Study of Exorcism in Christianity

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Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030431738
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

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Book Synopsis The Social Scientific Study of Exorcism in Christianity by : Giuseppe Giordan

Download or read book The Social Scientific Study of Exorcism in Christianity written by Giuseppe Giordan and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an academic analysis of exorcism in Christianity. It not only explores the crisis and drama of a single individual in a fight against demonic possession but also looks at the broader implications for the society in which the possessed lives. In recognition of this, coverage includes case studies from various geographical areas in Europe, North and South America, and Oceania. The contributors explore the growing significance of the rite of exorcism, both in its more structured format within traditional Christian religions as well as in the less controlled and structured forms in the rites of deliverance within Neopentecostal movements. They examine theories on the interaction between religion, magic, and science to present new and groundbreaking data on exorcism. The fight against demonic possession underlines the way in which changes within the religious field, such as the rediscovery of typical practices of popular religiosity, challenge the expectations of the theory of secularization. This book argues that if possession is a threat to the individual and to the equilibrium of the social order, the ritual of exorcism is able to re-establish a balance and an order through the power of the exorcist. This does not happen in a social vacuum but in a consumer culture where religious groups market themselves against other faiths. This book appeals to researchers in the field.

Searching for Africa in Brazil

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Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822392046
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Book Synopsis Searching for Africa in Brazil by : Stefania Capone Laffitte

Download or read book Searching for Africa in Brazil written by Stefania Capone Laffitte and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-17 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Searching for Africa in Brazil is a learned exploration of tradition and change in Afro-Brazilian religions. Focusing on the convergence of anthropologists’ and religious leaders’ exegeses, Stefania Capone argues that twentieth-century anthropological research contributed to the construction of an ideal Afro-Brazilian religious orthodoxy identified with the Nagô (Yoruba) cult in the northeastern state of Bahia. In contrast to other researchers, Capone foregrounds the agency of Candomblé leaders. She demonstrates that they successfully imposed their vision of Candomblé on anthropologists, reshaping in their own interest narratives of Afro-Brazilian religious practice. The anthropological narratives were then taken as official accounts of religious orthodoxy by many practitioners of Afro-Brazilian religions in Brazil. Capone draws on ten years of ethnographic fieldwork in Salvador de Bahia and Rio de Janeiro as she demonstrates that there is no pure or orthodox Afro-Brazilian religion. Challenging the usual interpretations of Afro-Brazilian religions as fixed entities, completely independent of one another, Capone reveals these practices as parts of a unique religious continuum. She does so through an analysis of ritual variations as well as discursive practices. To illuminate the continuum of Afro-Brazilian religious practice and the tensions between exegetic discourses and ritual practices, Capone focuses on the figure of Exu, the sacred African trickster who allows communication between gods and men. Following Exu and his avatars, she discloses the centrality of notions of prestige and power—mystical and religious—in Afro-Brazilian religions. To explain how religious identity is constantly negotiated among social actors, Capone emphasizes the agency of practitioners and their political agendas in the “return to roots,” or re-Africanization, movement, an attempt to recover the original purity of a mythical and legitimizing Africa.

The Diaspora of Brazilian Religions

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004246037
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book The Diaspora of Brazilian Religions written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-03-27 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Diaspora of Brazilian Religions explores the global spread of religions originating in Brazil, a country that has emerged as a major pole of religious innovation and production. Through ethnographically-rich case studies throughout the world, ranging from the Americas (Canada, the U.S., Peru, and Argentina) and Europe (the U.K., Portugal, and the Netherlands) to Asia (Japan) and Oceania (Australia), the book examines the conditions, actors, and media that have made possible the worldwide construction, circulation, and consumption of Brazilian religious identities, practices, and lifestyles, including those connected with indigenized forms of Pentecostalism and Catholicism, African-based religions such as Candomblé and Umbanda, as well as diverse expressions of New Age Spiritism and Ayahuasca-centered neo-shamanism like Vale do Amanhecer and Santo Daime. Contributors include Ushi Arakaki, Dario Paulo Barrera Rivera, Brenda Carranza, Anthony D'Andrea, Sara Delamont, Alejandro Frigerio, Alberto Groisman, Annick Hernandez, Clara Mafra, Cecília Mariz, Deirdre Meintel, Carmen Rial, Cristina Rocha, Camila Sampaio, Clara Saraiva, Olivia Sheringham, Neil Stephens, José Claúdio Souza Alves, Claudia Swatowiski, and Manuel A. Vásquez.

Framing cosmologies

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Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1847799086
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (477 download)

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Book Synopsis Framing cosmologies by : Allen Abramson

Download or read book Framing cosmologies written by Allen Abramson and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-16 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How might the anthropological study of cosmologies – the ways in which the horizons of human worlds are imagined and engaged – illuminate understandings of the contemporary world? This book addresses this question by bringing together anthropologists whose research is informed by a concern with cosmological dimensions of social life in different ethnographic settings. Its overall aim is to reaffirm the value of the cosmological frame as a continuing source of analytical insight. Attending to the novel cosmological formations that emerge in such fields as modern markets, political landscapes, digital media and popular cinema, the book’s key task is to explore how modern circumstances are constituted within the variable imagination of worlds and their horizons. It will be of interest to all students and researchers in anthropology, as well as scholars in fields as diverse as film studies, cultural studies, comparative religion, science and technology studies, and broader social theory.

Religions in Rio

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ISBN 13 : 9780990589983
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (899 download)

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Book Synopsis Religions in Rio by : João do Rio

Download or read book Religions in Rio written by João do Rio and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: João do Rio (1881-1921) was a literary journalist before his time, before the term existed, before anyone saw that journalism could be raised to the level of art by infusing it with intellecual insight and sociological analysis. He went wherever necessary to observe life as Rio de Janeiro struggled to enter the 20th century while clinging to its traditional imperial politics and lifestyle. He flaunted his homosexuality a century before it became socially acceptable. Here, for the first time in English, are João do Rio's reports on the bizarre confluence of European, North American, and African religions that found adherents in Rio de Janeiro. Candomblé, Spiritism, Positivism, Satanism, Judaism, the Cult of the Sea, the New Jerusalem, the Physiolaters, the Priestesses, the Evangelicals...they all fell under his scrutiny. Ana Lessa-Schmidt's translation of As Religiões no Rio, brilliant and true to the original, brings João do Rio's insight and revelations to full light. Just as João do Rio took readers down the dark streets of the low-life and into dark houses of worship, Lessa-Schmidt's translation takes readers into one of the world's most glorious and mysterious cities during its post-imperial heyday at the turn of the 20th century. This bilingual edition is in Portuguese and English.

Rational Choice Theory and Religion

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134953429
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Book Synopsis Rational Choice Theory and Religion by : Lawrence A. Young

Download or read book Rational Choice Theory and Religion written by Lawrence A. Young and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rational Choice Theory and Religion considers one of the major developments in the social scientific paradigms that promises to foster a greater theoretical unity among the disciplines of sociology, political science, economics and psychology. Applying the theory of rational choice--the theory that each individual will make her choice to maximize gain and minimize cost--to the study of religion, Lawrence Young has brought together a group of internationally renowned scholars to examine this important development within the field of religion for the first time.

Umbanda

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Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231100052
Total Pages : 300 pages
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Book Synopsis Umbanda by : Diana DeGroat Brown

Download or read book Umbanda written by Diana DeGroat Brown and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history and development of the Brazilian religion Umbanda are explored in this text. The author describes the defining features of the religion, its practices, followers and beliefs, its dramatic geographical spread across the country, and its relationship to rapid urban growth.

The Cooking of History

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022601973X
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Book Synopsis The Cooking of History by : Stephan Palmié

Download or read book The Cooking of History written by Stephan Palmié and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-06-14 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over a lifetime of studying Cuban Santería and other religions related to Orisha worship—a practice also found among the Yoruba in West Africa—Stephan Palmié has grown progressively uneasy with the assumptions inherent in the very term Afro-Cuban religion. In The Cooking of History he provides a comprehensive analysis of these assumptions, in the process offering an incisive critique both of the anthropology of religion and of scholarship on the cultural history of the Afro-Atlantic World. Understood largely through its rituals and ceremonies, Santería and related religions have been a challenge for anthropologists to link to a hypothetical African past. But, Palmié argues, precisely by relying on the notion of an aboriginal African past, and by claiming to authenticate these religions via their findings, anthropologists—some of whom have converted to these religions—have exerted considerable influence upon contemporary practices. Critiquing widespread and damaging simplifications that posit religious practices as stable and self-contained, Palmié calls for a drastic new approach that properly situates cultural origins within the complex social environments and scholarly fields in which they are investigated.

Learning Religion

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Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1845455940
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (454 download)

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Book Synopsis Learning Religion by : David Berliner

Download or read book Learning Religion written by David Berliner and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As we enter the 21st century, it becomes increasingly difficult to envisage a world detached from religion or an anthropology blind to its study. Yet, how people become religious is still poorly studied. This volume gathers some of the most distinguished scholars in the field to offer a new perspective for the study of religion, one that examines the works of transmission and innovation through the prism of learning. They argue that religious culture is socially and dynamically constructed by agents who are not mere passive recipients but engaged in active learning processes. Finding a middle way between the social and the cognitive, they see learning religions not as a mechanism of “downloading” but also as a social process with its relational dimension.

Spirited Things

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022612293X
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

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Book Synopsis Spirited Things by : Paul Christopher Johnson

Download or read book Spirited Things written by Paul Christopher Johnson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-05-07 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Ritual in Its Own Right

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Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781845450519
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (55 download)

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Book Synopsis Ritual in Its Own Right by : Don Handelman

Download or read book Ritual in Its Own Right written by Don Handelman and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historically, canonic studies of ritual have discussed and explained ritual organization, action, and transformation primarily as representations of broader cultural and social orders. In the present, as in the past, less attention is given to the power of ritual to organize and effect transformation through its own dynamics. Breaking with convention, the contributors to this volume were asked to discuss ritual first and foremost in relation to itself, in its own right, and only then in relation to its socio-cultural context. The results attest to the variable capacities of rites to effect transformation through themselves, and to the study of phenomena in their own right as a fertile approach to comprehending ritual dynamics.

New Age in Latin America

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004316485
Total Pages : 444 pages
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Download or read book New Age in Latin America written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-06-10 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is at the crossroads where a New Age sensibility, advancing like an ecumen of worldwide spirituality without national, cultural, or ecclesiastical frontiers, meets Latin America's syncretic religions, practiced by groups of people wiht African or indigenous roots or developed from the tradition of popular Catholicism. The Syncretic character of the two sensibilities makes both the New Age and popular religion behave like two, syncretizing and syncreticizable matrices of meaning. This book opens up a rich vein of debate with new dilemmas and discussions, that will provide a framework for a new field of study in anthropology. What new ways of signifying living and experiencing religion is the New Age generating in Latin America? What are its limits? Contributors are: Alejandra Aguilar Ros, Santiago Bastos, Lizette Campechano, Sylvie Pédron Colombani, Alejandro Frigerio, Jacques Galinier, Silas Guerriero, Cristina Gutiérrez Zúñiga,Nahayeilli B. Juárez Huet, José Guilherme C.Magnani, Antoinette Molinié, María Teresa Rodríguez, Deis Siqueira, Carlos Alberto Steil, Engel Tally, Renée de la Torre, and Marcelo Zamora.