African diaspora
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The meeting of the forests
There is a moment in Brazilian religious history that tends to receive less attention than it deserves. A moment when different traditions, coming from distinct continents, found ways to dialogue without completely losing their identities. This encounter happened amid the violence of colonization and slavery. It was from this context that some of Brazil’s most…
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Ancestry is not about religion, but it spills over!
Whenever I write about Indigenous peoples, African cosmologies, or Celtic traditions, I imagine someone might think this is a blog about religion. Actually, it isn’t. Or rather: religion appears, but it is not the center of the conversation. What interests me is understanding how different peoples organized their relationship with nature, with memory, with community,…