Relocating the Sacred: African Divinities and Brazilian Cultural Hybridities

Maps manifestations of the sacred and religious syncretism in Afro-Brazilian cultural forms.

Although Brazil is home to the largest African diaspora, the religions of its African descendants have often been syncretized and submerged, first under the force of colonialism and enslavement and later under the spurious banner of a harmonious national Brazilian character. Relocating the Sacred argues that these religions nevertheless have been preserved and manifested in a strategic corpus of shif...