The Sacrifice, the Feast and the Power of the Priesthood in the Xangô Cult of Recife

Roberto  Motta; Renata Siuda-Ambroziak

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Abstract

The Xangô religion of Recife is a the cult of the orixás, gods of West African (mainly Yoruba) derivation syncretized with the saints of Lusitanian popular Catholicism. The essential act of the cult consists of sacrifice and feasting: animal slaughter, during which the faithful sing, dance and experience trances. The cult characteristics imply a whole set of responses to environmental pressures of various kinds, with oppositions of a dialectical character between the community and domination; the initiate as a ritual son and the initiate as a client; the meat and the feast; and the sacrifice and the party. In other words, between the practical requirements of culture and its surplus that transpires as the feast and as the holy and the beautiful.

Keywords

kult Xangô, Brazylia, ofiara, uczta

Xangô cult, Brazil, sacrifice, feast

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Information

Information: Studia Religiologica, 2018, Volume 51, Issue 4, pp. 279 - 295

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/20844077SR.18.020.10151

Article type: Original article

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Polish:

The Sacrifice, the Feast and the Power of the Priesthood in the Xangô Cult of Recife

English:

The Sacrifice, the Feast and the Power of the Priesthood in the Xangô Cult of Recife

Authors

Roberto Motta

Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil

Renata Siuda-Ambroziak

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6594-0058

Pontifical University of São Paulo
Brazil

University of Warsaw
Poland

Published at: 14.12.2018

Article status: Open

Licence: CC BY-NC-ND

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Roberto Motta (Author) - 50%

Renata Siuda-Ambroziak (Author) - 50%

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