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Blessed Anastacia: Women, Race and Popular Christianity in Brazil

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

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Blessed Anastacia: Women, Race and Popular Christianity in Brazil 1998, Routledge, Oxford

ISBN-13: 9780415912600

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Blessed Anastacia: Women, Race and Popular Christianity in Brazil 1998, Routledge, Oxford

ISBN-13: 9780415912594

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