Blessed Anastacia: Women, Race and Popular Christianity in Brazil
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Blessed Anastacia: Women, Race and Popular Christianity in Brazil
Blessed Anastacia: Women, Race and Popular Christianity in Brazil

Blessed Anastacia: Women, Race and Popular Christianity in Brazil

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John Burdick (Author)  

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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.
John Burdick is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Syracuse University. He is the author of Looking for Godin Brazil (1993).
  • Contributor: John Burdick
  • Imprint: Routledge
  • ISBN13: 9780415912600
  • Number of Pages: 256
  • Packaged Dimensions: 152x229mm
  • Packaged Weight: 470
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Release Date: 1998-10-06
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: John Burdick is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Syracuse University. He is the author of Looking for Godin Brazil (1993).

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