Sweet, James H. <br/><br/>
Recreating Africa :  culture, kinship, and religion in the African -Portuguese world, 1441-1770 / 
James H. Sweet. 
 - Chapel Hill :  University of North Carolina Press,   c2003. 
 - xiv, 296 p. :  ill., maps ;   25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-285) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780807854822 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2003-001194 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Blacks-- Religion.--Brazil<br/>Blacks-- Social conditions.--Brazil<br/>Slavery and the church<br/>Afro-Brazilian cults.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Brazil-- Civilization-- African influences.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>981.00496