Umbanda

Intolerance and outright hostility against Umbanda, as well as Brazil's other major African-descended religion Candomble, have recently returned to the spotlight as religious-freedom activists denounce the demolition of a house known as Umbanda's birthplace.

SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter By JULIANA BARBASSA 2011

Intolerance and outright hostility against Umbanda, as well as Brazil's other major African-descended religion Candomble, have recently returned to the spotlight as religious-freedom activists denounce the demolition of a house known as Umbanda's birthplace.

StarTribune.com rss feed 2011

Fully embodied ecstatic shaking has been well developed throughout the African diaspora, including the Kalahari Bushmen, Zulu, Himba, Ndebele, Shakers of St. Vincent and Trinidad, Umbanda and Candomblé traditions of Brazil, and the sanctified African American Church.

The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010

I was invited to give a lecture on psychotherapy at a university in São Paulo, but I arrived a day early in order to be introduced to the leader of an Umbanda spirit house.

The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010

Pedro Ladeira/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images People made offerings to Yemanja, the goddess of the sea of the Afro-American religion Umbanda, Saturday at a Paranoa Lake in Brasilia, where hundreds gathered to pray for good things in the new year.

Welcoming the New Year 2012

His medical experience has included work with the Maori in New Zealand, Umbanda faith healers in Brazil, traditional healers in Palau, war veterans at the San Diego Veterans Hospital, and most recently the Navajo (Dine) in the Four Corners region of the United States.

Daniel Cook: What Brazilians Can Teach Us About Relaxation 2010

His medical experience has included work with the Maori in New Zealand, Umbanda faith healers in Brazil, traditional healers in Palau, war veterans at the San Diego Veterans Hospital, and most recently the Navajo Dine in the Four Corners region of the United States.

Daniel Cook: What Brazilians Can Teach Us About Relaxation Daniel Cook 2010

His medical experience has included work with the Maori in New Zealand, Umbanda faith healers in Brazil, traditional healers in Palau, war veterans at the San Diego Veterans Hospital, and most recently the Navajo (Dine) in the Four Corners region of the United States.

Daniel Cook: What Brazilians Can Teach Us About Relaxation 2010

Public prosecutor Almiro Sena, however, has accused Abib of "making false and prejudiced statements about the spiritualist religion as well as religions from Africa, like Umbanda and Candomble, as well as a flagrant incitement to destruction and disrespect for their objects of worship."....

Book Condemns Witchcraft Christopher 2008

Public prosecutor Almiro Sena, however, has accused Abib of "making false and prejudiced statements about the spiritualist religion as well as religions from Africa, like Umbanda and Candomble, as well as a flagrant incitement to destruction and disrespect for their objects of worship."....

Archive 2008-07-01 Christopher 2008