Eshu: An Afro-Atlantic God in Brazil

Exu: Um Deus Afro-atlântico no Brasil

Exu: Um Deus Afro-atlântico no Brasil

Eshu: An Afro-Atlantic God in Brazil

Exu: Um Deus Afro-atlântico no Brasil

Eshu is the most worshiped African god in the Afro-Atlantic world. His cult results from a long historical process of conflicts, exchanges, dialogues, negotiations, impositions, and resistances between different cosmological systems that came into contact at the confluence of African, European, and American cultures. This book characterizes the cult of Eshu in Brazil and analyzes his appropriation by Christian religions, first by Catholicism and, recently, by Neo-Pentecostalism. The book also brings a compilation of the Afro-Atlantic mythology of Eshu, including 183 myths of this deity.

  • Eshu: An Afro-Atlantic God in Brazil
  • Vagner Gonçalves da Silva Author
  • Universidade de São Paulo
  • Worldwide
  • Portuguese
  • Printed
    • 978-655-785-015-2
  • Yes
    • Carla Fernanda Fontana
    • carlaff@usp.br
    • +55 (11) 3091-4007