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Cover of Secrets, Gossip, and Gods: The Transformation of Brazilian Candomblé

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Secrets, Gossip, and Gods

The Transformation of Brazilian Candomblé

by Paul Christopher Johnson

A study of how Candomblé changed from a religion organised around secrecy into a public religion in modern Brazil. Johnson combines fieldwork with historical analysis of the great terreiros.

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