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Department of Human Sciences, State University of Rio de Janeiro

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Exu: The Mouth that Eats All? The Paradoxes of Gifts and Counter-Gifts in Quimbanda

Joana Bahia

Studia Religiologica, Volume 56, Issue 4, Ahead of print

The present work analyses the importance of ritual foods in Quimbanda, especially food demands – that is, food that is not eaten, but is made for negative tasks based on the logic of counter-gift or Counter-Axé We conducted fieldwork and interviews with Quimbanda masters and apprentices, and we engaged with a few of the authors who address the topic with regards to thoughts about the theoretical field that deals with religious foods in Afro-Brazilian religions. Religious food has a fundamental dimension in Quimbanda, being an act of transformation and a key element in religion.

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Different ways of practicing Afro-Brazilian religions in a transnational context: Germany

Joana Bahia

Studia Religiologica, Volume 51, Issue 3, 2018, pp. 149 - 163

https://doi.org/10.4467/20844077SR.18.011.10095

In this text, I study Afro-Brazilian religions (Candomblé and Umbanda) and the ways these adapt themselves culturally in the German context, producing hybridisms and reviving European pagan practices. In the first section of the text, I present how paisand mães de santo circulate through the artistic field, creating opportunities for them to construct ritual spaces in which religious practices are conducted and future adepts are recruited. I then analyze cases in which pais de santodo not participate in this artistic field, or even have their own terreirosor initiate filhos de santo. Finally, I consider ritual adaptations and the ways of relating to the economic and spiritual necessities of potential clients. In these cases, Afro-Brazilian religions end up being in close proximity to New Age practices currently common in European cultures.

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