Religious conflicts and public space: the dispute over Dunas do Abaeté in Salvador
The evangelical growth in Brazil has raised debates around the conflicting relations with Afro-Brazilian religions. In Salvador, a capital with a majority black population, the evangelicals are increasingly competing for social legitimacy in a city where the public presence of religions of African o...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2024 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade de Brasília (UnB) |
| Repositorio: | Anuário Antropológico (Online) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/54510 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/anuarioantropologico/article/view/54510 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | evangelicos religiões afro-brasileiras intolerancia religiosa racismo religioso espaço publico evangelicals afro-brazilian religions religious intolerance religious racism public space |
| Sumario: | The evangelical growth in Brazil has raised debates around the conflicting relations with Afro-Brazilian religions. In Salvador, a capital with a majority black population, the evangelicals are increasingly competing for social legitimacy in a city where the public presence of religions of African origin is marked by the adoption of their symbols that appear as "markers" of Bahia's identity. We initially present the discussions around the categories of religious intolerance and racism, focusing on research that deals with these conflicts in the public space of Salvador: the recognition of religious monuments, the square parties in neighborhood "religious territories”. Next, we address the recent conflict between Afro-religious and evangelicals in Salvador regarding the urbanization of Parque das Dunas and Lagoa do Abaeté, in February 2022, which confronted the two groups in the city streets. In conclusion, we point out the intensification of conflicts that produce new striations of the urban space: on the side of the evangelicals, the demand for the removal of the symbols of candomblé from the public space, while they claim the recognition of their symbols in the city; on the side of the Afro-religious, the novelty of the collective ebós, that bring to new places in Salvador the power previously circumscribed to the terreiros and sacred spaces. |
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