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A Refuge in Thunder: Candomblé and Alternative Spaces of Blackness

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by Rachel E. Harding
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Availability:In StockContributor:Rachel E. HardingSeries:Blacks in the Diaspora (Paperback)Publish date:2003-02-19Pages:272
Language:EnglishPublisher:Indiana University PressISBN-13:9780253216106ISBN-10:253216109UPC:9780253216106Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Caribbean & Latin AmericanSize:9.20 x 6.07 x 0.79 inchesWeight:0.9304Product ID:SC8C1RWD5C

A Refuge in Thunder: Candomblé and Alternative Spaces of Blackness

"[An important] detailing of the development and evolution of a major institution of the African Diaspora [and] of Brazilian and Afro-Brazilian identity." --Sheila S. Walker

The Afro-Brazilian religion Candomblé has long been recognized as an extraordinary resource of African tradition, values, and identity among its adherents in Bahia, Brazil. Outlawed and persecuted in the late colonial and...

Series: Blacks in the Diaspora (Paperback)
Language:EnglishPublisher:Indiana University PressISBN-13:9780253216106ISBN-10:253216109UPC:9780253216106Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Caribbean & Latin AmericanSize:9.20 x 6.07 x 0.79 inchesWeight:0.9304Product ID:SC8C1RWD5C

Rachel E. Harding is Director of The Veterans of Hope Project at the Iliff School of Theology. She earned a Ph.D. in Latin American history from the University of Colorado in 1997. Her essay "'What Part of the River You're In': African-American Women in Devotion to Osun" appears in Osun across the Waters: A Yoruba Goddess in Africa and the Americas (Indiana University Press, 2001). Harding is...

Publisher: Indiana University Press

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