Blessed Anastacia: Women, Race and Popular Christianity in Brazil by Burdick, John

Blessed Anastacia: Women, Race and Popular Christianity in Brazil (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780415912600)

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Blessed Anastacia: Women, Race and Popular Christianity in Brazil by Burdick, John

Blessed Anastacia: Women, Race and Popular Christianity in Brazil

$46.95
Blessed Anastacia: Women, Race and Popular Christianity in Brazil by Burdick, John

Blessed Anastacia: Women, Race and Popular Christianity in Brazil

$46.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: John Burdick
ISBN-10: 0415912601
ISBN-13: 9780415912600
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 10/06/1998
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d
By John Burdick
By John Burdick
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John Burdick is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Syracuse University. He is the author of Looking for Godin Brazil (1993).

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