On the Trails of the Terreiro: Afro-Brazilian Religions and Associativism in Bahia (1930-1970)

This article brings together notes and new data on a topic that is still rare in studies of Afro-Brazilian religions, although it is a very widespread phenomenon: associativism linked to terreiro religions. Through newspapers published in Salvador, especially in the 1970s, as well as through ethnogr...

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Autor: Santos, Edmar Ferreira
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA)
Repositorio:Afro-Ásia (Online)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.periodicos.ufba.br:article/50670
Acceso en línea:https://periodicos.ufba.br/index.php/afroasia/article/view/50670
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Associativism
Candomblé
Race relations
Black social movement
Bahia
Associati
Relações raciais
Movimento negro
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Sumario:This article brings together notes and new data on a topic that is still rare in studies of Afro-Brazilian religions, although it is a very widespread phenomenon: associativism linked to terreiro religions. Through newspapers published in Salvador, especially in the 1970s, as well as through ethnographic and historiographical data, the article shows subjects, interpretations, proposals and associations linked to Afro-Brazilian religious communities that allow a better understanding of the relationships between the experiences of people linked to terreiros and those involved in Afro-Brazilian struggle for political and civil rights, above all, in efforts to attain full citizenship and to overcome racism. The movement for the legitimation of ancestral rites as religious in nature, which included notions of appreciation and respect, reveals similarities between the terreiros’ struggle and those of the black social movement, active at the national level from the 1930s onwards.