Blessed Anastacia Women, Race and Popular Christianity in Brazil

Name: Blessed Anastacia Women, Race and Popular Christianity in Brazil
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ISBN: 9780415912600

ISBN-10: 0415912601

ISBN-13: 9780415912600

Edition: 1998

Authors: John Burdick

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The weakness of Brazil's black consciousness movement is commonly attributed to the fragility of Afro-Brazilian ethnic identity. In a major account, John Burdick challenges this view by revealing the many-layered reality of popular black consciousness and identity in an arena that is usually overlooked: that of popular Christianity. Blessed Anastaciadescribes how popular Christianity confronts everyday racism and contributes to the formation of racial identity. The author concludes that if organizers of the black consciousness movement were to recognize the profound racial meaning inherent in this area of popular religiosity, they might be more successful in bridging the gap with its poor…

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List price: $50.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 10/6/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

John Burdick is Professor of Anthropology at Syracuse University. He is author of Legacies of Liberation: The Progressive Catholic Church in Brazil at the Start of a New Millennium, Blessed Anastacia: Women, Race and Popular Christianity in Brazil, and Looking for God in Brazil: The Progressive Catholic Church in Urban Brazil's Religious Arena.



Introduction



The Everyday Wounds of Color Negras in Love, Family, and Work



Spirited Languages The Field of Popular Christianity in Rio de Janeiro



The Politics of Mystical Substance Black Women and the Catholic Inculturated Mass



What is the Color of the Holy Spirit? Racial/Color Meanings in Pentecostalism



The Eyes of Anast_cia Political Readings of a Popular Catholic Devotion



The Politics of Ethnography Translating Knowledge Claims into Practice Conclusion An Agenda for the Ethnography of Social Movements