Ethnoreligious Identity Politics in Bahia, Brazil

Selka, Stephen

doi:10.1177/0094582x04271855

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“…Second, there is the identity politics model (Burdick ). Arguing against socioeconomic reductionism, Stephan Selka () and John Burdick () delineate religious discourses as markers of social boundaries in political struggles to override long‐standing racial discrimination in Brazil (Collins ; Gill ). They correctly identify the paradoxes associated with an essentialist root metaphor of the Brazilian Negro – constructed as generic to Afro‐Brazilian religious practices – which collides with the flexible negotiability characterizing both the colour and religious spectrums in Brazil (Segato ).…”

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“…In the first case, ritual is about triumphant inventiveness contextualized as such by the hallmarks of a Lewisian culture of poverty (Fry & Howe ). In the second, it is about forms of resistance (Selka ) contextualized by the longue durée failure of Brazilian ‘racial democracy’ to override deeply rooted class and colour hierarchies (Ribeiro ). The third concerns the horizons of personal agency contextualized by the ethical intricacies across discordant religious praxes (Selka ).…”

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Curving the social, or, why antagonistic rituals in Brazil are variations on a theme

Shapiro

2015

Royal Anthropological Inst

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What can we learn about religious diversity in Brazil if we isolate ritual practices from their sociocultural surround? Using vocabulary developed by Don Handelman in his framework of 'ritual in its own right', I discuss this question in the context of low-income Northeast Brazil. I demonstrate that Afro-Brazilian possession rites and Christian-Evangelical prayers (oração) transform the lives of the persons who practise them in ways that are intrinsic to their self-organization, internal complexity, and differentiating 'curves'. I consequently argue that these rites are not representations of antagonistic moral prescriptions for good living but rather variations on a single theme of sociality.

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Section: The Ethnographic Contextmentioning

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Curving the social, or, why antagonistic rituals in Brazil are variations on a theme

Shapiro

2015

Royal Anthropological Inst

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“…Two evangelical churches functioned in nearly complete self-isolation from the rest of the community. This level of separation was remarkable in its impact on such a small locale and reflected broader trends in Brazilian society that witness a burgeoning evangelical movement among poor Afro-Brazilians (Freston, 1993;Selka, 2005). Land's End (CA) also had a number of isolates associated with civic activity.…”

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Civic Networks and Community Resilience in Brazil, Canada, Chile, and Cuba

Barrett

VanderPlaat

Gonzalez

et al. 2011

Journal of Civil Society

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This article explores the relationship between civil society and community resilience in coastal communities in Brazil, Canada, Chile and Cuba. In understanding the role of social capital in community development, we do not feel sufficient attention has been paid to the subtle microdynamics of civil network structure. Using social network analysis, we explore the link between community cohesion and resilience. Attention is given to conflicting interests that characterize these communities and how they manifest themselves in civic participation and factional affiliations. We find that organizational diversity is a necessary condition for community vitality, but organizations can become captive to factional interests. The critical factors for resilience are associated with a benign side of factions (a plurality of inclusive ties) and the presence of keystone bridging agents. Each offers hidden mechanisms for neutralizing the effects of fragmentation by providing a cohesive capability which remains latent until crises call for collective action.

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“…Selka (2005) mostra como tem se organizado o movimento evangélico antirracista, que é contrário ao discurso que relaciona as religiões afro-brasileiras à identidade negra. Para esse grupo, existem outros referenciais para se constituir a identidade negra, como, por exemplo, o protestantismo negro norte-americano.…”

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Povos e comunidades tradicionais de matriz africana: uma análise sobre o processo de construção de uma categoria discursiva

Morais

Jayme

2017

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Resumo: Este artigo aborda o processo de construção de uma categoria discursiva: povos e comunidades tradicionais de matriz africana. Trata-se de uma expressão adotada para nomear os grupos praticantes das religiões afro-brasileiras no âmbito das políticas públicas ancoradas no debate acerca da diversidade cultural no Brasil. O intuito, assim, é de refletir sobre os caminhos escolhidos pelo movimento afro-religioso para organizar e apresentar sua agenda nesse contexto. A análise apresentada é baseada na leitura dos documentos relacionados, principalmente, à Política de Promoção da Igualdade Racial, entre 2003 e 2014. Busca-se ainda pensar nas consequências da brusca ruptura ocorrida no segundo mandato da presidenta Dilma Rousseff no caso específico analisado, uma vez que se tratam de políticas públicas desenvolvidas não apenas como parte de um governo, mas como um projeto de estado atreladas aos ditames de organismos internacionais. Palavras-chave:Povos e comunidades tradicionais de matriz africana. Diversidade cultural. Religiões afro-brasileiras.Abstract: This paper analyses the process of building a discursive category: Traditional People and Communities of African Matrix. This is an expression used to name the Afro-Brazilian religions practitioners on the public policies of cultural diversity in Brazil. The aim of this paper is to think how the Afro-religious movement organizes

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Ethnoreligious Identity Politics in Bahia, Brazil

Cited by 29 publications

References 13 publications

Curving the social, or, why antagonistic rituals in Brazil are variations on a theme

Curving the social, or, why antagonistic rituals in Brazil are variations on a theme

Civic Networks and Community Resilience in Brazil, Canada, Chile, and Cuba

Povos e comunidades tradicionais de matriz africana: uma análise sobre o processo de construção de uma categoria discursiva

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