What is it about?
The big "AFRO-Brazilan" religion is Candomblé. Umbanda is a Brazilian religion that began in the 1920s. Umbanda illustrates that the pendulum swing of treating many Latin American religions as African diaspora traditions needs to swing back a bit, in order to pay more attention to local historical and cultural contexts.
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This article is one more step in a cumulative argument that "religion" is not some universal, transcendent category; religions are social phenomena that reflect their specific contexts.
Prof Steven J Engler
Mount Royal University
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This page is a summary of: Umbanda and Africa, Nova Religio The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions, May 2012, University of California Press,
DOI: 10.1525/nr.2012.15.4.13.
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