L’esclave de Satan, ou la guerre néopentecôtiste contre les démons afro-brésiliens à Bahia (Brésil)
(2010) Social Compass : international review of sociology of religion — Vol. 57, n° 1, p. 110-126 (2010)
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- For about 20 years, the neopentecostal churches have been waging war against the Afro-Brazilian cults, whose gods—the orixàs—are openly demonized. In Brazil, this confrontation is analysed by numerous specialists in terms of proselytizing in a religious market. Distancing herself from this perspective, the author chooses to interpret the “war against the Devil” through the symbolic acts of its converts, whose aim is to liberate themselves from the yoke of ancestral law. Indeed, the crente1 discourse reinforces ever more strongly the idea that the Afro-Brazilian cults not only embody the religion of slaves’ descendants but also, and above all, reproduce the subordinated and alienated attitude that was typical of them during the colonial era. From their perspective, the only way to break out of this intergenerational “captivity” is to “liberate” themselves by substituting for ancestral traditions—turned towards the past—a spirit of individual conquest—turned towards the future.
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Plaideau, C. (2010). L’esclave de Satan, ou la guerre néopentecôtiste contre les démons afro-brésiliens à Bahia (Brésil). Social Compass : international review of sociology of religion, 57(1), 110-126. https://doi.org/10.1177/0037768609355641 (Original work published 2010)