TY - JOUR
TI - Different ways of practicing Afro-Brazilian religions in a transnational context: Germany
AU - Bahia, Joana
TI - Different ways of practicing Afro-Brazilian religions in a transnational context: Germany
AB - 
	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.
VL - 2018
IS - Volume 51, Issue 3
PY - 2018
SN - 0137-2432
C1 - 2084-4077
SP - 149
EP - 163
DO - 10.4467/20844077SR.18.011.10095
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studia-religiologica/article/different-ways-of-practicing-afro-brazilian-religions-in-a-transnational-context-germany
KW - Afro-Brazilian religions transnationalization
KW - African diaspora
KW - hybridisms
KW - Europe