Search for dissertations about: "Diana Espírito Santo"

Found 1 swedish dissertation containing the words Diana Espírito Santo.

2. 1. The Stick and the Calabash : Building gods in Bahian Candomblé

   Author : Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen; Mattias Gardell; Inger Sjørslev; Diana Espírito Santo; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Afro-Brazilian religion; Religionshistoria; History of Religions;

   Abstract : Practitioners of the Brazilian religion Candomblé frequently explain syncretism with a myth about how slaves camouflaged the cult of their embodied African gods behind the worship of icons of Catholic saints. The myth is multivalent and here I try to see it as a mapping of how Candomblistas operate hybridity in their construction of deities. READ MORE