Neo-Pentecostalism and Afro-Brazilian religions: explaining the attacks on symbols of the African religious heritage in contemporary Brazil

In this work, I analyze the relations of proximity and antagonism between neo-Pentecostalism and Afro-Brazilian religions, and their consequences for the transformation of the Brazilian social imaginary constructed on the basis of values derived from these two fields.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Vagner Gonçalves da Silva, David Allan Rodgers
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro 2007-01-01
Series:Mana
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Online Access:http://socialsciences.scielo.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-93132007000100003&lng=en&tlng=en