"In the Name of the God of All Names: Yahweh, Obatalá, Olorum": The 1981 Quilombos Mass as an Ecumenical Pilgrimage in Brazil.
On November 22, 1981, thousands of laypeople, along with bishops, priests, and theologians, gathered in Recife to celebrate the Eucharist. Offered during a military dictatorship in a period of popular insurgency, the Quilombos Mass mourned the death of millions in the African slave trade, sought par...
| Publicado en: | Americas (00031615) Vol. 81; no. 1; pp. 123 - 159 |
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Cambridge University Press
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