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Religious Evolution and Creation: the Afro-Brazilian Cults

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2024

Maria Isaura Pereira de Queiroz
Maria Isaura Pereira de Queiroz*
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University of Sao Paulo
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Since the end of the 19th century, Brazilian researchers have speculated about the phenomenon of ethnic coexistence they have witnessed in their country. How may the mixed culture that is its obvious result be explained? Should it be attributed to some sociocultural syncretism, to an interpenetration of civilizations or, quite simply, to a synthesis? Whatever the case, it is certain that cultural elements of very different origins became united in Brazil and that they have remained closely associated there in spite of their disparity. The best example of this “cultural conglomerate,” if we may call it that, is without a doubt that of the Afro-Brazilian religious cults and, although numerous studies have already been devoted to them, they have a richness of content and meaning, plus a capacity for renewal, that is far from being exhaustively investigated.

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Diogenes , Volume 29 , Issue 115 , September 1981, pp. 1 - 21
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Copyright © 1981 Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie / International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP)

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A communication presented to the Dialogue-Congress Western Europe/Latin America, organized by Osterreichisches College, June 24-29, 1979, Alpbach, Austria.

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