Surviving in the Land of the Dead: Bantu Religion in the Brazilian Diaspora
This paper seeks to identify elements of Bantu religion that, almost 500 years after the arrival of the first Bantu slaves, remain existent in Brazilian culture, especially in AfroBrazilian religions. For this purpose, I will analyze literature on the cosmology of Bantu peoples in Congo and Angola a...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
[2020]
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International journal of Latin American religions
Year: 2020, Volume: 4, Issue: 1, Pages: 108-122 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Brazil
/ Bantu
/ Religion
/ Afro-Brazilian cult
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IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion BB Indigenous religions KBN Sub-Saharan Africa KBR Latin America |
Further subjects: | B
Slavery
B Afro-Brazilian religion B Antropofagia cultural B Perspectivism B Palavras chave: religiões de matriz africana B Palabras clave: religiones de matriz africana B Perspectivismo B Cultural Anthropophagy B Esclavitud B Antropofagía cultural B cultura bantú en Brasil B Cultura banta no Brasil B Bantu culture in Brazil B Escravatura |
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Summary: | This paper seeks to identify elements of Bantu religion that, almost 500 years after the arrival of the first Bantu slaves, remain existent in Brazilian culture, especially in AfroBrazilian religions. For this purpose, I will analyze literature on the cosmology of Bantu peoples in Congo and Angola and compare the findings to Afro-Brazilian religious concepts that are known to be of Bantu origin. I then will apply the concepts of Brazilian Modernist Anthropophagy, Amerindian Perspectivism, and form as defined by Eduardo Kohn to try and understand the mechanisms of the survival of Bantu practices in Brazil, where they have been openly discarded and discriminated against for centuries. My goal is to show that the often described passivity and willingness to give up their ways in favor of syncretism and acculturation of Bantu slaves may have been a far more active survival strategy than one might think. |
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ISSN: | 2509-9965 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: International journal of Latin American religions
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s41603-020-00098-z |