O mestiço espiritual brasileiro: mestiçagem, anti-mestiçagem, diversidade religiosa e as novas interlocuções no campo religioso afro-brasileiro

• Autor(a) principal: Luz, Antonio José Vieira da
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Trabalho de conclusão de curso
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.pucsp.br/jspui/handle/handle/30048
• topic: CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::SOCIOLOGIA::OUTRAS SOCIOLOGIAS ESPECIFICAS; Religiões afro-brasileiras; Mestiçagem; Pluralismo religioso; Purismo religioso; Nagocentrismo; Racismo; Apartheid étnico; Afro-Brazilian religions; Miscegenation/mestizaje; Religious pluralism; Religious purism; Nagocentrism; Racism; Ethnical apartheid

The brazilian religions (usually called afro-brazilian) are the outcome of a extensivemiscegenationwhose property hasnot been constituted on account ofarandom reunion of different cultural traitsand symbols or of a simple reflex of itsmother-traditions. In Brazil they haveremodeled, reinvented their own idiom,given their gods and their god’s relation withmen and nature new meanings, brokendogmas and actual tabus, and many otheractions. They have, since their origins,presented the common trace of beingcollective constructions –without prophets,revealers or martyrs –, and of beingpolycentric –born in both distinct places andtimes. They acknowledge each other asmiscegenatedand diverse, which debars ethnicaland religious pure (Aryan or African)speeches, so undermining the thesisaccording to which miscegenationresults on homogenization. Throughout theirhistories, they have shown enormouscreativity, endless capacity of reinventingthemselves, of remodeling themselves inscenarios far away from religious, culturalcolonialismo and social prejudice that stillpersists until nowadays. Furthermore, thisreligious field is dynamic and rebuilds, andreshapes itself far removed from the placessome intellectual circles assume. This papertried to summarize the discussions on miscegenationdeveloped in the brazilian, afro-indian descendent religiousmilieu