Macumba
Author : A. J. Langguth
Publisher :
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 26,35 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN :
About Spirits and Macumba
Author : Harriett Stoutjesdijk
Publisher :
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 28,12 MB
Release : 1960
Category : Brazil
ISBN :
Book Description
Macumba
Author : Serge Bramly
Publisher : City Lights Publishers
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 14,39 MB
Release : 1994-05-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780872862869
Book Description
Every January millions of people crowd the seashore to receive the blessings of lemanja, goddess of the sea. All year long in terreiros in Brazil and around the world, Orixa worshipers revel in the divine presence of the living Gods, directly...
Magic from Brazil
Author : Morwyn
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 49,30 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Afro-Brazilian cults
ISBN : 9780738700441
Book Description
Get ready to launch yourself on an incredible journey into a fascinating cultural force and powerful magical system. Born in turn-of-the-century Brazil, the vibrant magical religions of Umbanda, Macumba, Spiritism, and Candomblé combined ecstatic African traditions with European Spiritualism. They share much in common with Wicca, shamanism, and even ceremonial magic. This book is an insider's look at their practices, practices that you can incorporate into your own workings. Call on the powers of the Orixás, the gods of the Afro-Brazilian pantheon; practice their spellwork and rituals, trance and mediumship; experience the energies of tropical botanicals used in magic and healing; and sample Afro-Brazilian cuisine: the foods of the gods. This book: Presents authentic Brazilian magic from a Portuguese and Brazilian scholar. The author has attended ceremonies, interviewed heads of sects, recorded music, and collected artifacts for this book Deepens understanding of channeling, color magic, drumming, nature religions, naturopathic healing, even psychotherapy Introduces a refreshing perspective with important lessons for practitioners of all religions
Afro-Caribbean Religions
Author : Nathaniel Samuel Murrell
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 10,92 MB
Release : 2010-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1439901759
Book Description
Religion is one of the most important elements of Afro-Caribbean culture linking its people to their African past, from Haitian Vodou and Cuban Santeria—popular religions that have often been demonized in popular culture—to Rastafari in Jamaica and Orisha-Shango of Trinidad and Tobago. In Afro-Caribbean Religions, Nathaniel Samuel Murrell provides a comprehensive study that respectfully traces the social, historical, and political contexts of these religions. And, because Brazil has the largest African population in the world outside of Africa, and has historic ties to the Caribbean, Murrell includes a section on Candomble, Umbanda, Xango, and Batique. This accessibly written introduction to Afro-Caribbean religions examines the cultural traditions and transformations of all of the African-derived religions of the Caribbean along with their cosmology, beliefs, cultic structures, and ritual practices. Ideal for classroom use, Afro-Caribbean Religions also includes a glossary defining unfamiliar terms and identifying key figures.
Raven
Author : Tim Reiterman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 48,48 MB
Release : 2008-11-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781585426782
Book Description
The basis for the upcoming HBO miniseries and the "definitive account of the Jonestown massacre" (Rolling Stone) -- now available for the first time in paperback. Tim Reiterman’s Raven provides the seminal history of the Rev. Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple, and the murderous ordeal at Jonestown in 1978. This PEN Award–winning work explores the ideals-gone-wrong, the intrigue, and the grim realities behind the Peoples Temple and its implosion in the jungle of South America. Reiterman’s reportage clarifies enduring misperceptions of the character and motives of Jim Jones, the reasons why people followed him, and the important truth that many of those who perished at Jonestown were victims of mass murder rather than suicide. This widely sought work is restored to print after many years with a new preface by the author, as well as the more than sixty-five rare photographs from the original volume.
Supplication of the Male Pig
Author : Chris Bellows
Publisher : Pink Flamingo Media
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 13,67 MB
Release : 2022-02-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1954079664
Book Description
Heir to one of America’s great fortunes, David Farnsworth Smythe lives lavishly and licentiously. As far as David is concerned, the privilege of wealth is to squander vast sums on young women willing to capitulate to his sordid sexual penchants and completely debase themselves for money…and his pleasure. But when it comes time to inherit his billions, David draws the attention of the clever and Dominant Heather MacDougall, a woman with whom no man should trifle. Nor should any male cross her beautiful and accomplished team of female bodyguards and torturers, all dedicated to relieving David of every, last inherited dollar. An action thriller of intrigue, coercion, theft by deception, torture, and duplicity, as the powerful Ms. MacDougall and her accomplices subdue, humiliate and squash into submission this repugnant male. For aficionados of Female Dominance and the abject subjugation of the male.
Umbanda
Author : Diana DeGroat Brown
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 45,42 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780231100052
Book Description
The history and development of the Brazilian religion Umbanda are explored in this text. The author describes the defining features of the religion, its practices, followers and beliefs, its dramatic geographical spread across the country, and its relationship to rapid urban growth.
The Social Life of Spirits
Author : Ruy Blanes
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 31,58 MB
Release : 2013-11-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 022608180X
Book Description
Spirits can be haunters, informants, possessors, and transformers of the living, but more than anything anthropologists have understood them as representations of something else—symbols that articulate facets of human experience in much the same way works of art do. The Social Life of Spirits challenges this notion. By stripping symbolism from the way we think about the spirit world, the contributors of this book uncover a livelier, more diverse environment of entities—with their own histories, motivations, and social interactions—providing a new understanding of spirits not as symbols, but as agents. The contributors tour the spiritual globe—the globe of nonthings—in essays on topics ranging from the Holy Ghost in southern Africa to spirits of the “people of the streets” in Rio de Janeiro to dragons and magic in Britain. Avoiding a reliance on religion and belief systems to explain the significance of spirits, they reimagine spirits in a rich network of social trajectories, ultimately arguing for a new ontological ground upon which to examine the intangible world and its interactions with the tangible one.
Latin American Religion in Motion
Author : Christian Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 20,10 MB
Release : 2004-11-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1135962936
Book Description
Latin America is undergoing a period of intense religious transformation and upheaval. This book analyzes some of the more important new discoveries about religious movements in the region. It examines important shifts such as the expansion and politicization of Protestantism, the ongoing transformation of the Catholic church, the growth of Afro-Brazilian religions, and the genuine pluralization of faith.
