{"id":697,"date":"2017-12-04T16:57:49","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T21:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vlbrenna-rel095fall2017\/?p=697"},"modified":"2017-12-04T16:57:49","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T21:57:49","slug":"candomble-lecture-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vlbrenna-rel095fall2017\/2017\/12\/04\/candomble-lecture-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Candomble Lecture Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">I was in attendance when Doctor Paul Johnson of University of Michigan Anne Arbor\u2019s Department of African Studies gave a lecture on the twenty-eighth of November at UVM.\u00a0 At his lecture, Dr. Johnson spoke of the African Diaspora and Candomble and Spiritism in particular.\u00a0 Candomble is popular in Brazil, as it is a center for African diasporic religions.\u00a0 As Portuguese Catholic traditions mixed with African traditions, new, hybrid religions were created.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">One of the most obvious examples of the mixture of Catholicism and African religions is the qualities of Candomble spirits are shared between Catholic saints and African Orishas.\u00a0 Many of the religious figures of Candomble are closely tied with a Catholic counterpart.\u00a0 While practice of Candomble was banned in Brazil for many years, the religion had a following which steadily increased.\u00a0 Catholicism was the dominant religion, and often Candomble practitioners would use the guise of Catholicism to disguise their non-Catholic traditions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">Spiritism shares some of the physical territory as Candomble, but is different from it in many ways.\u00a0 The interpretations of various Orisha is very different between Spiritism and Candomble.\u00a0 For example, in Candomble, Esu is often tied to the Catholic devil because of his ability to do harm.\u00a0 This darker interpretation of orisha often makes the difference between Spiritism and Candomble quite clear.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Dr. Johnson was an excellent speaker, and his prose and style made the lecture interesting and worthwhile.\u00a0 Dr. Johnson seems to be authoritative on the subject, and would be a good source of information on Candomble, Spiritism, or any other Diasporic religion.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was in attendance when Doctor Paul Johnson of University of Michigan Anne Arbor\u2019s Department of African Studies gave a lecture on the twenty-eighth of November at UVM.\u00a0 At his lecture, Dr. Johnson spoke of the African Diaspora and Candomble and Spiritism in particular.\u00a0 Candomble is popular in Brazil, as it is a center for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4537,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vlbrenna-rel095fall2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vlbrenna-rel095fall2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vlbrenna-rel095fall2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vlbrenna-rel095fall2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4537"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vlbrenna-rel095fall2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vlbrenna-rel095fall2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":698,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vlbrenna-rel095fall2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions\/698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vlbrenna-rel095fall2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vlbrenna-rel095fall2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vlbrenna-rel095fall2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}