African-derived religions on the Web: Cyber “terreiros” (places where Afro-Brazilian fetichism is practiced) and Global African Diaspora

• Autor(a) principal: Freitas, Ricardo Oliveira de
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: RECIIS (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://www.reciis.icict.fiocruz.br/index.php/reciis/article/view/665
• topic: Internet; Afro-Brazilian religions; new communication technologies; media activism; internet; religiões afro-brasileiras; novas tecnologias de comunicação; midiativismo

Through websites, mailing lists, social networking and blogs, which discuss issues associated with African-based religiosity, I evaluate the contribution of the Internet for the creation of a new social network that is being built, once the real terreiro is being replaced by the virtual terreiro. Also evaluate its contribution for the transformation of traditionally oral-centered religions into hypertext religions, as they are being reconfigured virtually, in an image-text space, hypertext space. Such facts show that there is a new reality: the democratization of knowledge (even the secret knowledge, liturgics), and the new path to establish the diasporal African-derived religious field as a space to globally forecast African-derived religions, with magic-religious services available or as a self resource ? when the Internet transforms the so-called minority religions in global religions, and they become, therefore, socially inclusive religions.