RT Article
T1 Inhabitants of the Screen: Celebrity and the Production of Religious Authority in Bahian Candomblé
JF Australian religion studies review
VO 24
IS 3
SP 254
OP 274
A1 Port, Mattijs van de 1961-
LA English
PB AASR
YR 2011
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1693765586
AB In Bahia, Brazil, the public articulation of religious authority comes to depend more and more on celebrity discourses. This article takes the Afro-Brazilian spirit possession cult Candomblé as an example to show how in media-saturated societies religious and media imaginaries become inextricably entangled. In their struggle to be publicly recognized as a proper ‘religion', Candomblé priests find themselves overcoming their media-shyness. Televisual fame is a value understood by the public at large, and its acquisition adds weight to the status and prestige of Candomblé priests in ways that religious criteria for priestly authority cannot accomplish.
K1 Bahia
K1 Brazil
K1 Celebrity politics
K1 Candomblé
K1 media imaginaries
K1 religious authority
DO 10.1558/jasr.v24i3.254