LEADER 04512nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910789336003321 005 20211015031124.0 010 $a1-283-10032-0 010 $a1-4008-3397-3 010 $a9786613100320 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400833979 035 $a(CKB)3400000000085120 035 $a(EBL)689266 035 $a(OCoLC)724025000 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000521185 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11364273 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000521185 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10517821 035 $a(PQKB)10516601 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36944 035 $a(DE-B1597)446656 035 $a(OCoLC)979578895 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400833979 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL689266 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10468686 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL310032 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC689266 035 $a(dli)HEB09268 035 $a(MiU)MIU01000000000000011663274 035 $a(EXLCZ)993400000000085120 100 $a20040810d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBlack Atlantic religion$b[electronic resource] $etradition, transnationalism, and matriarchy in the Afro-Brazilian Candomble? /$fJ. Lorand Matory 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc2005 215 $a1 online resource (392 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-691-05944-6 311 0 $a0-691-05943-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [343]-368) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tList of Illustrations --$tIntroduction --$tChapter One. The English Professors of Brazil On the Diasporic Roots of the Yorůbá Nation --$tChapter Two. The Trans-Atlantic Nation Rethinking Nations and Transnationalism --$tChapter Three. Purity and Transnationalism On the Transformation of Ritual in the Yorůbá-Atlantic Diaspora --$tChapter Four. Candomblé's Newest Nation: Brazil --$tChapter Five. Para Inglęs Ver Sex, Secrecy, and Scholarship in the Yorůbá-Atlantic World --$tChapter Six. Man in the "City of Women" --$tChapter Seven. Conclusion. The Afro-Atlantic Dialogue --$tAppendix A. Geechees and Gullahs The Locus Classicus of African "Survivals" in the United States --$tAppendix B. The Origins of the Term "Jeje" --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aBlack 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. 606 $aCandomble? (Religion) 615 0$aCandomble? (Religion) 676 $a299.6/73 686 $aBE 5650$qHBZ$2rvk 700 $aMatory$b James Lorand$01584041 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910789336003321 996 $aBlack Atlantic religion$93867617 997 $aUNINA