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1 online resource (232 pages) : illustrations |
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monochrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Recovering and reconstructing syncretism / André Droogers, Sidney M. Greenfield -- A Yoruba healer as syncretic specialist: herbalism, rosicrucianism and the Babalawo / Frank A. Salamon -- Population growth, industrialization and the proliferation of syncretized religions in Brazil / Sidney M. Greenfield -- Ethnicity, purity, the market and syncretism in Afro-Brazilian cults / Roberto Motta -- Religious syncretism in an Afro-Brazilian cult house / Sergio F. Ferretti -- Presence of non-African spirits in an Afro-Brazilian religion: a case of Afro-Amerindian syncretism? / Mundicarmo M.R. Ferretti -- Reinterpretation of Africa: convergence and syncretism in Brazilian Candomblé / Sidney M. Greenfield -- Possession and syncretism: spirits as mediators in modernity / Inger Sjørslev -- Joana's story: syncretism at the actor's level / André Droogers -- Ragga cowboys: country and western themes in Rastafarian-inspired Reggae music / Werner Zips -- Polyvocality and constructions of syncretism in Winti / Ineke van Wetering -- Seeking syncretism: the case of Sathya Sai Baba / Morton Klass. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Black people -- Religion -- Congresses.
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Black people -- Religion. |
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Syncretism (Religion) -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Congresses.
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Syncretism (Religion) |
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Sub-Saharan Africa. |
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Syncretism (Religion) -- Latin America -- Congresses.
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Latin America. |
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Afro-Brazilian cults -- Congresses.
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Afro-Brazilian cults. |
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Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Greenfield, Sidney M.
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Droogers, André.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Reinventing religions. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, ©2001 (DLC) 00059199 (OCoLC)44775173 |
| ISBN |
0585383634 (electronic book) |
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9780585383637 (electronic book) |
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0847688526 (alkaline paper) |
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9780847688524 (alkaline paper) |
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0847688534 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780847688531 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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