John Burdick

Blessed Anastacia (eBook, ePUB)

Women, Race and Popular Christianity in Brazil

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 Anastacia describes 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 and working-class constituency.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136044229
• Artikelnr.: 45135086

Autorenporträt

John Burdick is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Syracuse University. He is the author of Looking for Godin Brazil (1993).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. The Everyday Wounds of Color Negras in Love, Family, and
Work 2. Spirited Languages The Field of Popular Christianity in Rio de
Janeiro 3. The Politics of Mystical Substance Black Women and the Catholic
Inculturated Mass 4. What is the Color of the Holy Spirit? Racial/Color
Meanings in Pentecostalism 5. The Eyes of Anastácia Political Readings of a
Popular Catholic Devotion 6. The Politics of Ethnography Translating
Knowledge Claims into Practice Conclusion An Agenda for the Ethnography of
Social Movements