The Reassertion of Male Participation in the Candomble Priesthood

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ID20054470
AuthorsMiguel Contreras Alonso (0000-0002-0698-3461, corresponding author)
Year2014
Pages103-129
Publication date2014-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueDevelopment of Yoruba Candomble Communities in Salvador, Bahia, 1835-1986 (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan US (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/9781137486431_6
OpenAlexW2502135068
ISBN9781137486431
LanguageEN
References cited11

After a yearlong battle with several undefined illnesses, Iyá Oba Biyi, as Mãe Aninha was known inside the temple walls, was aware her time on this earth was running short. Gathering the temple leadership to her side, she made preparations for her transformation and passage into the realm of the ancestors carefully arranging the clothes in which she wished to be buried.1 One day, after her passing on January 3, 1938, her body was transported by car to the church of Our Lady of the Rosary in Pelourinho, the centuries-old home to the African nações of Salvador. Located near the old whipping post, it stood as constant reminder of the brutal force with which Bahia was formed. Nearly three thousand mourners attended her funeral while thousands more lined the streets for a final glimpse of the Yoruba queen born of Grunci parents, who had done perhaps more than any other of her era to faithfully preserve and reinvent a true center of African spiritual power in the New World.KeywordsReligious TraditionReligious FreedomFemale DominanceElevated ClassElite ClassThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves

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