Desecrating the Sacred: Linguistic Appropriation of Nagô Expressions and the Articulation of Religious Repression in Salvador, Brazil
Comprehensively understanding religious repression requires a critical examination of discursive-linguistic practices, given that language is a semiotic resource for ritual practice and negotiations of religious identity. Language has also been weaponized within colonial domination and religious sub...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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The Pennsylvania State University Press
2021
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Journal of Africana religions
Année: 2021, Volume: 9, Numéro: 2, Pages: 165-202 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Salvador
/ Yoruba
/ Concept
/ Kulturelle Aneignung
/ Religion
/ Oppression
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| Classifications IxTheo: | AD Sociologie des religions AX Dialogue interreligieux BB Religions traditionnelles ou tribales CH Christianisme et société KBN Afrique subsaharienne KBR Amérique Latine NCC Éthique sociale |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Sociolinguistics
B Indexicality B misappropriation B Yorubas B religious subordination B Semiotics |
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| Résumé: | Comprehensively understanding religious repression requires a critical examination of discursive-linguistic practices, given that language is a semiotic resource for ritual practice and negotiations of religious identity. Language has also been weaponized within colonial domination and religious subjugation because of how religious and linguistic practices intersect. This article explores linguistic appropriation as part of the symbolic and material(ized) violence that represses African-matrix religions. Focusing on Salvador, Brazil, I analyze cases of linguistic-spiritual appropriation wherein commercial industries and evangelical Christians adopt Nagô/Yoruba expressions derived from African-matrix liturgical registers and reshape them to the detriment of their source communities. This investigation highlights how kindred ideological processes, like evangelicalism and the national projects of mestiçagem and democracia racial, become entextualized and reconstituted through discursive processes. It demonstrates the paradox of socially and politically dominant groups co-opting, commodifying, and capitalizing on the very ritual practices and institutions that they restrict, malign, and criminalize. |
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| ISSN: | 2165-5413 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Journal of Africana religions
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