Burdick Blessed Anastacia

Women, Race and Popular Christianity in Brazil
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-136-04422-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Burdick, John

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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