Adorned with the Mix of Faith and Profanity that Intoxicates the People

The Festival of the Senhor do Bonfim in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, 1930-19541

Dados Bibliográficos

ID5073530
AutoresScott Icke, Scott Ickes, Scott B Ickes (0000-0001-8140-5429, University of Nottingham, autor correspondente)
Ano2005
Volume24
Fascículo2
Páginas181-200
Data de publicação2005-04-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoBulletin of Latin American Research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0261-3050 • E-ISSN: 1470-9856
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.0261-3050.2005.00131.x
OpenAlexW2025381973
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas6
Referências citadas13

This essay looks at a formative period in the history of the festival of the Senhor do Bonfim, one of Salvador's most important religious festivals. The essay focuses on the public ritual washing of the Church of Bonfim and the tensions between the Catholic Church, who periodically banned the washing from the larger festival, and a variety of historical actors including politicians, journalists, authors and working-class Salvadorans whose efforts eventually contributed to the lifting of the prohibition once and for all in 1953. The author suggests that the defence of the washing both reflected and contributed to a larger hegemonic process taking place in Salvador after 1930, as actors within Salvador's dominant class accepted and even praised Afro-Bahian cultural practices, including them as integral parts of a larger Bahian identity

Aesthetics · Art · Ethnology · Faith · Formative assessment · Hegemony · Identity (music · Political science · Sociology · Theology · Variety (cybernetics · American History and Culture · Decadence, Literature, and Society · Gender Studies · Law · Urban and sociocultural dynamics