Part I. Living and dying in the African-Portuguese diaspora
Demography, distribution, and diasporic streams
Kinship, family, and household formation
Disease, mortality, and master power
Part II. African religious responses
Catholic vs. "other" in the world of believers
Theory and praxis in the study of African religions
African divination in the diaspora
Calundus, curing, and medicine in the colonial world
Witchcraft, ritual, and resistance in the African-Portuguese diaspora
Part III. Africans and the Catholic Church
African Catholicism in the Portuguese world
The impacts of African religious beliefs on Brazilian Catholicism.
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Recreating Africa : culture, kinship, and religion in the African-Portuguese world, 1441-1770 by James H. Sweet. ISBN 0807828084. Published by The University of North Carolina Press in 2003. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
