This volume contributes to transatlantic anthropology and history by bringing together religion, cultural heritage and placemaking in the Atlantic world. The entanglements of religion, cultural heritage and belonging are ethnographically scrutinized to perceive the connections and disconnections of specific places.

List of Figures Introduction: Ethnographic Perspectives on the Atlantic Markus Balkenhol, Ruy Llera Blanes, and Ramon Sarró Chapter 1. Silent Histories: Deadly Chinos and the Memorialization of a Chinese Imaginary through Afro-Cuban Religions Diana Espíríto Santo Chapter 2. Of Revelation and Re-Creation: Christian Miracles and African Traditions in the Atlantic Roger Sansi Chapter 3. Peruvian Israelites: Territorial Narratives and Religious Connections across the Atlantic Carmen González Hacha Chapter 4. Defending What’s Ours: Asserting Land Rights through Popular Catholicism in a Brazilian Quilombo Katerina Chatzikidi Chapter 5. Emergent Atlantics: Black Evangelicals’ Quest for a New Moral Geography in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil Bruno Reinhardt Chapter 6. The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in Portugal: Avoiding Stigmas and Building Bridges Claudia Swatowiski Chapter 7. Our Lady of Fátima in Brazil, Iemanjá in Portugal: Afro-Brazilian Religions across the Atlantic Clara Saraiva Chapter 8. Eight Movements and a Coda on the Baroque Atlantic Mattijs van de Port Chapter 9. The Spirit(s) of New Orleans: Community Healing through Commemoration Roos Dorsman Chapter 10. Imaging the African Diaspora: Cultural Heritage, Religion, and Belonging in the Netherlands Markus Balkenhol Chapter 11. Places of No History in Angola Ruy Llera Blanes Chapter 12. Slavery Histories from the Hinterland: Making Indigenous Heritage Landscapes in Western Burkina Faso Laurence Douny Chapter 13. A Prophetic Enclave: Religious Heritage and Environmental History in Northern Angola Ramon Sarró and Marina Temudo Conclusion: From the Atlantic Point of View: Some Concluding Thoughts Ramon Sarró Index

Ruy Llera Blanes is a Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the School of Global Studies of the University of Gothenburg. His current research site is Angola, where he is working on the topics of religion, mobility, politics, temporalities, and knowledge. His publications include A Prophetic Trajectory. Ideologies of Place, Time and Belonging in an Angolan Religious Movement (2014) and the volume The Social Life of Spirits (2013, edited with Diana Espírito Santo). He is also co-editor of the journal Advances in Research: Religion and Society.