Recreating Africa : culture, kinship, and religion in the African -Portuguese world, 1441-1770 - Sweet, James H. (James Hoke) (Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2003)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-285) and index.
Keywords: Blacks -- Brazil -- Religion; Blacks -- Brazil -- Social conditions; Slavery and the church; Afro-Brazilian cults; Brazil -- Civilization -- African influences