The importance of Afro religion in the process of resistance of ancestral culture in Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Márcia Maria da
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Saldanha, Dináh Cristina Pereira da S., Soares, Emanoel Luís Roque
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Ensino em Perspectivas
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.uece.br/index.php/ensinoemperspectivas/article/view/10485
• topic: Religião Afro; Cultura da ancestralidade; Comunidade tradicional de terreiro; Exu; Afro Religion; Ancestry culture; Traditional community; Exu

This article discusses the importance of the Afro religion for the African people as a starting point to keep their history, culture and ancestry alive. The mother religion, which projects the search for long-lost and separated family ties in the face of the condition of enslaved people, maintains its relevance in the construction of the social, political and economic process in our country. We seek, therefore, a sensitive look at the Afro religion here in our country: how it materialized from its beginning in the terreiros of the big houses and flourished over the long years of our history, emphasizing our traditional communities of yards and our struggles with social movements. We bring Exu to these discussions as a great potentiator of these struggles from mother Africa to our current sheds. Exu as the one who opens the way, the one who watches over the gates and the first one who comes to our rescue.