TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sweet, James H.
TI  -  Recreating Africa: culture, kinship, and religion in the African -Portuguese world, 1441-1770 
SN  - 9780807854822
U1  - 981.00496  22
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Blacks
KW  - Brazil
KW  -  Religion
KW  -  Social conditions
KW  - Slavery and the church
KW  - Afro-Brazilian cults
KW  -  Civilization
KW  -  African influences
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-285) and index; Part I. Living and dying in the African-Portuguese diaspora -- Demog raphy, distribution, and diasporic streams -- Kinship, family, and hous ehold formation -- Disease, mortality, and master power -- Part II. Afr ican religious responses -- Catholic vs. "other" in the world of believ ers -- Theory and praxis in the study of African religions -- African d ivination in the diaspora -- Calundus, curing, and medicine in the colo nial world -- Witchcraft, ritual, and resistance in the African-Portugu ese diaspora -- Part III. Africans and the Catholic Church -- African C atholicism in the Portuguese world -- The impacts of African religious beliefs on Brazilian Catholicism
ER  -