The Class Notes document for this week is available here.

Paul Johnson, “What is Candomblé”

This week you should post a discussion question that connects Johnson’s chapter on Brazilian Candomblé to one of our previous class readings. Your question should be one that leads to further discussion, rather than a fact-based or a question that has a single answer. Ideally, your question will help us to better refine or produce further understandings of our class concepts (African diaspora, syncretism/hybridity, altars). Alternately, you can pose a question about the chapter that connects to how we study religion as an outsider.

POST YOUR RESPONSES IN THE CLASS NOTES DOCUMENT! Be sure to include your name with your post so that you can receive credit for completing it.