As the source from which urban *macumbas*, rural *Candomblé*, and *Umbanda* emerged, Bantu-origin *Candomblé*—also known as the Angola or Congo-Angola nation—centers on the worship of *inquices* (deities). In this context, *Raiz de Santo* brings together author-researchers with lived experience in the *axé* tradition to recover the ethnography of Bantu *Candomblé*—a subject still under-researched in academia. Drawing on oral history, photographic archives, and documents, the authors examine the memories of *terreiros* (religious centers) in Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo, detailing how these centers were established, the state repression they face, and their struggle for religious freedom.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
- Vagner Gonçalves da Silva and Janaína de Figueiredo
1. Terreiro Tumbenci: histories, memories, knowledge, and practices
- Hildete Santos Costa and Cesar Costa Vitorino
2. Terreiro Bate Folha da Bahia: memories of a social history
- Erivaldo Sales Nunes and Carla Maria Ferreira Nogueira
3. Kavungo’s eyes are upon you: the Tumba Junsara way of performing *milonga* and planting *ndanji*
- Veridiana Machado and Emili Conceição
4. “The path is that way, but I’m going this way.” Narratives, *inquices*, and *caboclos* of the *Angolão Paquetan Malembá* *Candomblé*
- Ari Lima
5. The roots of Angola *Candomblé* in Ilhéus
- Valeria Amim and Eduardo H. P. de Oliveira
6. “The *terreiro* flourished there”: the Goméia of Caxias (c. 1960)
- Andrea Mendes
7. Mukui São Paulo – Angola-nation *Candomblé* in the São Paulo metropolitan area and coast
- Vagner Gonçalves da Silva and Janaina de Figueiredo