African-derived religions on the Web
Cyber “terreiros” (places where Afro-Brazilian fetichism is practiced) and Global African Diaspora
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16883027 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ricardo Oliveira De Freitas (0000-0002-7528-4488, Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Publication date | 2010-09-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Revista Eletrônica de Comunicação, Informação e Inovação em Saúde (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1981-6278 • E-ISSN: 1981-6278 |
| Publisher | Instituto de Comunicação e Informação Científica e Tecnológica em Saúde (Icict) da Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz) (PUBLISHER • BR) |
| DOI | 10.3395/reciis.v4i3.386en |
| OpenAlex | W2319999117 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
Through websites, mailing lists, social networking and blogs, which discuss issues associated with African-based religiosity, I evaluate the contribution of the Internet for the creation of a new social network that is being built, once the real terreiro is being replaced by the virtual terreiro. Also evaluate its contribution for the transformation of traditionally oral-centered religions into hypertext religions, as they are being reconfigured virtually, in an image-text space, hypertext space. Such facts show that there is a new reality: the democratization of knowledge (even the secret knowledge, liturgics), and the new path to establish the diasporal African-derived religious field as a space to globally forecast African-derived religions, with magic-religious services available or as a self resource -when the Internet transforms the so-called minority religions in global religions, and they become, therefore, socially inclusive religions
Diaspora · Geography · Political science · Sociology · Anthropology · Cultural, Media, and Literary Studies · Gender Studies · Religion and Society in Latin America · Urban and sociocultural dynamics
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |