Blessed Anastacia: Women, Race, and Popular Christianity in Brazil Book

Introduction

1. The Everyday Wounds of Color

Negras in Love, Family, and Work

2. Spirited Languages

The Field of Popular Christianity in Rio de Janeiro

3. The Politics of Mystical Substance

Black Women and the

Catholic Inculturated Mass

4. What is the Color of the Holy Spirit?

Racial/Color Meanings in Pentecostalism

5. The Eyes of Anastacia

Political Readings of a Popular Catholic Devotion

6. The Politics of Ethnography

Translating Knowledge

Claims into Practice

Conclusion

An Agenda for the Ethnography of Social Movements

formulas and always attentive to complexity, Burdick has produced both a nuanced ethnography and a contribution to theories of social movements and activist scholarship (David J. Hess, professor of anthropology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and author of Samba in the Night:

Spiritism in Brazil)

Movement in the Peruvian Andes)