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Candomblé
Candomblé Ketu, Jeje, Angola
c.1830 CE – present · African & Diasporic · Living · Brazil, especially Bahia; Uruguay, Argentina
VI. REFORMATION & EARLY MODERN — 1500 – 1800
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- 1500s–1888 CE Brazil receives roughly 4.9 million enslaved Africans, about 40% of the entire Atlantic trade. Slavery is abolished in 1888, the last country in the Americas to do so.
- c.1830 CE Casa Branca founded in Salvador.
- 1890 CE The new republic's penal code criminalises spiritism and healing; Candomblé is prosecuted under it for decades.
- 1920s–40s CE Police raids; ritual objects confiscated and displayed in police museums, where some remain.
- 1930s CE Terreiros required to register with the police; the requirement is only lifted in Bahia in 1976.
- 1976 CE Bahia abolishes the police licensing of terreiros.
- 1980s–present Growing recognition as national heritage; Casa Branca is listed as a national monument in 1984 — the first Afro-Brazilian religious site to be protected.
- 2000s–present Sustained attacks by neo-Pentecostal groups, including physical destruction of terreiros and assaults on practitioners, prompting religious-intolerance legislation and public campaigns.
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