Candomblé and the time

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Main Author: Reginaldo Prandi
Format: Artículo científico
Language:en
Published: Associação Nacional de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa em Ciências Sociais 2001
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contents Candomblé and the time Reginaldo Prandi Multidisciplinarias (Ciencias Sociales) Time in Afro Time and reli gious hierarchy Time and religion Time and initiation The article tries to show how conceptions of time, learning and knowledge, typical aspects of Candomblé, are a constituent part ofAfrican culture and people that instituted the orixás religion in Brazil . The idea of life and death, birth and reincarnation, as well as the cult tothe ancestors and to the orixás, asconceived in African soil, was reproduced in Brazil in conformity with those conceptions. With the transformation of Candomblé in a religion not only restricted to afrodescendants and its propagation around the country, congregating followers inserted in the world of work and of controlled learning, based on the capitalist notion of time, the Western conceptions undermine the African concepts of time, especially those concerning knowledge, changing the initiation practices and the constitution of authority, hierarchy and the religious power in the terreiros (yards), provoking deep changes in the religion 2001 artículo científico 0102-6909 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=10704703 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=107 Revista Brasileira de Ciências Sociais application/pdf Associação Nacional de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa em Ciências Sociais Revista Brasileira de Ciências Sociais (Brasil) Num.47 Vol.16
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publisher Associação Nacional de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa em Ciências Sociais
spellingShingle Candomblé and the time
Reginaldo Prandi
Multidisciplinarias (Ciencias Sociales)
Time in Afro
Time and reli
gious hierarchy
Time and religion
Time and initiation
Candomblé and the time Reginaldo Prandi Multidisciplinarias (Ciencias Sociales) Time in Afro Time and reli gious hierarchy Time and religion Time and initiation The article tries to show how conceptions of time, learning and knowledge, typical aspects of Candomblé, are a constituent part ofAfrican culture and people that instituted the orixás religion in Brazil . The idea of life and death, birth and reincarnation, as well as the cult tothe ancestors and to the orixás, asconceived in African soil, was reproduced in Brazil in conformity with those conceptions. With the transformation of Candomblé in a religion not only restricted to afrodescendants and its propagation around the country, congregating followers inserted in the world of work and of controlled learning, based on the capitalist notion of time, the Western conceptions undermine the African concepts of time, especially those concerning knowledge, changing the initiation practices and the constitution of authority, hierarchy and the religious power in the terreiros (yards), provoking deep changes in the religion 2001 artículo científico 0102-6909 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=10704703 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=107 Revista Brasileira de Ciências Sociais application/pdf Associação Nacional de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa em Ciências Sociais Revista Brasileira de Ciências Sociais (Brasil) Num.47 Vol.16
title Candomblé and the time
topic Multidisciplinarias (Ciencias Sociales)
Time in Afro
Time and reli
gious hierarchy
Time and religion
Time and initiation
url https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=10704703