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A Refuge in Thunder
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(An important) detailing of the development and evolution of amajor institution of the African Diaspora (and) of Brazilian and Afro-Brazilianidentity." -- Sheila S. Walker
The Afro-Brazilian religionCandombl has long been recognized as an extraordinary resource of Africantradition, values, and identity among its adherents in Bahia, Brazil. Outlawed andpersecuted in the late colonial and imperial period, Candombl neverthelessdeveloped as one of the major religious expressions of the Afro-Atlantic diaspora.Drawing principally on primary sources, such as police archives, Rachel E. Hardingdescribes the development of the religion as an "alternative" space in whichsubjugated and enslaved blacks could gain a sense of individual and collectiveidentity in opposition to the subaltern status imposed upon them by the dominantsociety.
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