RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s biggest pop star, Anitta, has released a music video depicting rituals of the Afro-Brazilian faith Candomble, sparking controversy in a country where religious ...

The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology, Vol. 35, No. 2, Special Issue – Infrastructures of Certainty and Doubt (Autumn 2017), pp. 65-78 (14 pages) This article compares the ways in which two different ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The religion of Candomblé was banned for centuries out of fear that its celebrations were associated with witchcraft. Photograph ...

Candomblé is a Brazilian religion that originated in West Africa and was brought to Brazil by enslaved Africans. The religion blends elements of African traditional religions with elements of ...

When the slave trade came to Brazil in the 16th century, African religious beliefs and rituals survived the long and treacherous journey along with it. Over the centuries, such beliefs would come to ...

Ever since he was a child sitting on his grandmother’s lap during church services, Bryan Wiley has been drawn to the spiritual. That fascination has woven its way into “African Continuum: Sacred ...

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). As my eyes adjust to the half-light, I discern through a veil of incense a line-up of objects fixed to the temple wall: axe heads, a ...