Violence and chaos in Afro-Brazilian religious experience

Violence and chaos in Afro-Brazilian religious experience

Drawing on material concerning the Recife Shango and Jurema cults (among others), this article shows how ritualized violence and disorder, associated with the manifestation of “heavy”, evil spirits and attributed to cults of a more syncretic nature, remain a constitutive aspect of Afro-Brazilian cer...

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Hlavní autor: Carvalho, José Jorge de
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Jazyk:Anglais
Vydáno: Systèmes de pensée en Afrique noire 2013
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Brazil
Jurema
Shango
religious violence
religious experience
violence religieuse
expérience religieuse
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spelling openedition-oai:revues.org:span_1186 https://doi.org/10.4000/span.1186 urn:doi:10.4000/span.1186 en https://journals.openedition.org/span/1186 2013-11-13T01:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/kvv9 All rights reserved Violence and chaos in Afro-Brazilian religious experience Systèmes de pensée en Afrique noire École pratique des hautes études. Sciences humaines info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2268-1558 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/0294-7080 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/span Carvalho, José Jorge de Brazil Jurema Shango religious violence religious experience Brésil Jurema Shango violence religieuse expérience religieuse Drawing on material concerning the Recife Shango and Jurema cults (among others), this article shows how ritualized violence and disorder, associated with the manifestation of “heavy”, evil spirits and attributed to cults of a more syncretic nature, remain a constitutive aspect of Afro-Brazilian ceremonial activity. A parallel with the dionysian cult as portrayed in The Bacchae is used to argue that the performance of meaning-subverting ritual violence points to the existence of a pre-representational “third state”, neither structure nor anti-structure, which is to be recognized as a distinctive mode of religious experience. A partir de données provenant notamment des cultes Shango et Jurema de Récife, cet article montre que la violence et le désordre ritualisés, censés provenir de cultes plus syncrétiques, et associés à la manifestation d’esprits malveillants et « lourds », sont un aspect constitutif de l’activité cérémonielle dans les religions afro-brésiliennes. Un parallèle avec le culte dionysiaque tel qu’il est dépeint dans les Bacchantes d’Euripide fait apparaître que cette violence rituelle et la subversion des catégories qu’elle implique sont la manifestation d’un « troisième état », ni structural ni anti-structural, à considérer comme un mode spécifique de l’expérience religieuse.
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topic Brazil
Jurema
Shango
religious violence
religious experience
Jurema
Shango
violence religieuse
expérience religieuse
spellingShingle Brazil
Jurema
Shango
religious violence
religious experience
Jurema
Shango
violence religieuse
expérience religieuse
Carvalho, José Jorge de
Violence and chaos in Afro-Brazilian religious experience
description Drawing on material concerning the Recife Shango and Jurema cults (among others), this article shows how ritualized violence and disorder, associated with the manifestation of “heavy”, evil spirits and attributed to cults of a more syncretic nature, remain a constitutive aspect of Afro-Brazilian ceremonial activity. A parallel with the dionysian cult as portrayed in The Bacchae is used to argue that the performance of meaning-subverting ritual violence points to the existence of a pre-representational “third state”, neither structure nor anti-structure, which is to be recognized as a distinctive mode of religious experience.
author Carvalho, José Jorge de
author_facet Carvalho, José Jorge de
author_sort Carvalho, José Jorge de
title Violence and chaos in Afro-Brazilian religious experience
title_short Violence and chaos in Afro-Brazilian religious experience
title_full Violence and chaos in Afro-Brazilian religious experience
title_fullStr Violence and chaos in Afro-Brazilian religious experience
title_full_unstemmed Violence and chaos in Afro-Brazilian religious experience
title_sort violence and chaos in afro-brazilian religious experience
publisher Systèmes de pensée en Afrique noire
publishDate 2013
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