RT Article
T1 The Sacrifice, the Feast and the Power of the Priesthood in the Xangô Cult of Recife
JF Studia religiologica
VO 51
IS 4
SP 279
OP 295
A1 Motta, Roberto 20./21. Jh.
A1 Siuda-Ambroziak, Renata
LA English
PB Wydawn. Uniw. Jagiellońskiego
YR 2018
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1759857890
AB 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.
K1 Brazylia
K1 kult Xangô
K1 ofiara
K1 uczta
DO 10.4467/20844077SR.18.020.10151