Tag Archive | "Brazil"
Interview with Mae Stella Oxóssi
In a morning of Wednesday, between a query and another, Mother of Stella Oxóssi received us in the house of Xangô and talked about the priesthood, the history of Candomblé in Bahia and Ilê terreiro Axé OPO Afonjá. The conversation was not long, because, as always, a queue of people waiting for their advice.
Continue reading...Candomble: Several Considerations
Friday, March 13, 2009
The 300-year history of Negro enslavement in Brazil shows, before all else, the resistence, the organization of the Negroes. The African culture survived, for them, through their belief, through their religion. What one believes, desires, is stronger than what one experiences whenever there is a limit situation.
Continue reading...Candomble Film Highlights Mae Stella
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
The documentary film A Cidade das Mulheres (The City of Women) directed by Lazaro Faria, presents an intimate view of African religious traditions in Bahia, Brazil. It features Mae Stella de Oxossi, perhaps the most influential figure in Bahia’s Candomble community.
Continue reading...Bahia Gov’t Confisicates Anti-Candomble Book
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
The state of Bahia in Brazil has confiscated all copies of the book "Yes, Yes! No, No! Reflections on Healing and Liberation" on the grounds that it makes false and prejudicial statements about the Afro-Brazilian religions of Candomble and Umbanda, and incites readers to destroy their objects of worship in the name of Catholicism.
Continue reading...Candomble and Time
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Afro-Brazilian religions, constituted from African traditions brought by slaves, still cultivate a notion of time that is very different from “our” time, that of the West and of capitalism (Fabian 1985). Because of its link with the notion of life and death and concepts of this world and the next, the notion of time is essential to the constitution of religion.
Continue reading...Priestly Payout
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Latin Trade, Dec, 2000 by Andrew Downie THE HIGH PRIESTS AND PRIESTESSES OF Brazil’s candomble religion are getting formal recognition–and pensions to go along with it. Recent changes in the law bring purveyors of the Afro-Brazilian religion into line with Roman Catholic clergy and allow the white-robed female priests, or Maes-de-santo, and their male counterparts, [...]
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- Interview with Awo Owolabi, Son of the Araba
- Ifa Reading of the Year, Oke Itase, Ile-Ife Nigeria on June 5, 2010
- Orisa Priestess helps expand West African faith’s reach
- A Response to the Accord of the Oba Oriate
- How Should We Answer the Oba Oriates on Their Manifesto Statement and Accord?
- Founders of Various Traditional African Spiritual Lineages in U.S.
Friday, March 13, 2009
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