Research Catalog

Slaves and religions in Graeco-Roman antiquity and modern Brazil

Title: Slaves and religions in Graeco-Roman antiquity and modern Brazil / edited by Stephen Hodkinson and Dick Geary.
Publication: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Filter by

1 Item

Item details
Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request for On-site Use Request Scan Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Use in library	JFD 15-4740	Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

Details

Additional Authors

Description

viii, 341 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Subjects

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction. Slaves and religions : historiographies, ancient and modern / Stephen Hodkinson and Dick Geary -- In the eyes of the beholders or in the minds of the believers? Historicizing "religion" and enslavement / Joseph C. Miller -- The ritual activity of Roman slaves / J.A. North -- Slaves and role reversal in Ancient Greek cults / Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz -- Slaves included? Sexual regulations and slave participation in two ancient religious groups / Karin Neutel -- The journey home : a freed Mulatto priest, a Cipriano Pires Sardinha, and his religious mission to Dahomey / Júnia Ferreira Furtado -- Manumission, social rebirth, and healing Gods in Ancient Greece / Deborah Kamen -- The Apollo of slaves and freedmen / Bassir Amiri -- Infant slave baptisms, legitimacy, parental origins, godparenthood and naming practices in the Parish of São José Do Rio Das Mortes Brazil (1750-1850) / Douglas Cole Libby -- "What will happen to me if I leave?" Ancient Greek oracles, slaves and slave owners / Esther Eidinow -- Magic, religion, and the Roman slave : resistance, control and community / Niall McKeown -- "The rights of man" or "Afro-American call to holy war" : religion, ideology and slave revolt in Brazil, 1750-1880 / Dick Geary.

Call Number

JFD 15-4740

ISBN

9781443837361
1443837369

LCCN

2012451998

OCLC

778617056

Title

Slaves and religions in Graeco-Roman antiquity and modern Brazil / edited by Stephen Hodkinson and Dick Geary.

Publisher

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Hodkinson, Stephen, editor.

Geary, Dick, editor.

Research Call Number

JFD 15-4740

View in Legacy Catalog