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Umbanda

Religion and Politics in Urban Brazil

by Diana DeGroat Brown

A study of the origins and growth of Umbanda in twentieth-century Rio de Janeiro, its middle-class founders and its relations with the state. Brown examines how Umbanda's leaders defined the religion against Candomblé and against practices labelled Quimbanda.

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