Desecrating the Sacred: Linguistic Appropriation of Nagô Expressions and the Articulation of Religious Repression in Salvador, Brazil

IF 0.3 0 RELIGION Journal of Africana Religions Pub Date : 2021-08-11 DOI:10.5325/jafrireli.9.2.0165
A. R. Washington
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Abstract:Comprehensively understanding religious repression requires a critical examination of discursive-linguistic practices, given that language is a semiotic resource for ritual practice and negotiations of religious identity. Language has also been weaponized within colonial domination and religious subjugation because of how religious and linguistic practices intersect. This article explores linguistic appropriation as part of the symbolic and material(ized) violence that represses African-matrix religions. Focusing on Salvador, Brazil, I analyze cases of linguistic-spiritual appropriation wherein commercial industries and evangelical Christians adopt Nagô/Yoruba expressions derived from African-matrix liturgical registers and reshape them to the detriment of their source communities. This investigation highlights how kindred ideological processes, like evangelicalism and the national projects of mestiçagem and democracia racial, become entextualized and reconstituted through discursive processes. It demonstrates the paradox of socially and politically dominant groups co-opting, commodifying, and capitalizing on the very ritual practices and institutions that they restrict, malign, and criminalize.
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亵渎神圣:Nagô表达的语言挪用和巴西萨尔瓦多宗教镇压的表达
摘要:考虑到语言是仪式实践和宗教身份协商的符号学资源,全面理解宗教压制需要对话语语言实践进行批判性考察。在殖民统治和宗教征服中,语言也被武器化了,因为宗教和语言实践是如何交叉的。这篇文章探讨了语言挪用作为压制非洲母体宗教的象征和物质(化)暴力的一部分。以巴西的萨尔瓦多为重点,我分析了语言-精神挪用的案例,在这些案例中,商业行业和福音派基督徒采用了源自非洲矩阵礼仪记录的Nagô/约鲁巴表达方式,并对其进行了重塑,从而损害了其来源社区。这项调查强调了类似的意识形态过程,如福音主义和民族主义和种族民主的国家项目,如何通过话语过程变得具体化和重构。它展示了社会和政治上占主导地位的群体对他们限制、诋毁和定罪的仪式实践和制度的同化、商品化和资本化的悖论。
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Africana Religions publishes critical scholarship on Africana religions, including the religious traditions of African and African Diasporic peoples as well as religious traditions influenced by the diverse cultural heritage of Africa. An interdisciplinary journal encompassing history, anthropology, Africana studies, gender studies, ethnic studies, religious studies, and other allied disciplines, the Journal of Africana Religions embraces a variety of humanistic and social scientific methodologies in understanding the social, political, and cultural meanings and functions of Africana religions.
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