<em>Axé</em> in movement in the religious market: Umbanda in decline, candomblé in ascension
The article describes a peculiar dynamics of the Brazilian religious market: the rise and the decline of the cults of African origin. According to the data of several censuses, from 1940 to 2010, beside a slight, but constant, decline of Catholic followers, there was at first a vertiginous rise of u...
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| Language: | English |
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UNICApress
2015-06-01
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| Series: | Anuac |
| Online Access: | https://ojs.unica.it/index.php/anuac/article/view/1611 |