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challenging specialists with its puncturing of theoretically induced misconceptions and offering general readers a clear but critical entr馥 to the theoretical literature concerning this central aspect of modern society
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The Devil and the Land of the Holy Cross: Witchcraft, Slavery, and Popular Religion in Colonial Brazil Legends/ Myths/ Fables challenging specialists with its puncturingOriginally published in Brazil as O Diabo e a Terra de Santa Cruz, this translation from the Portuguese analyzes the nature of popular religion and the ways it was transferred to the New World in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Using richly detailed transcripts from Inquisition trials, Mello e Souza reconstructs how Iberian, indigenous, and African beliefs fused to create a syncretic and magical religious culture in Brazil. Focusing on
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