Blessed Beats
Religious Profanation and Evangelical Syncretization fromSambatoCarnaval Gospel
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2285207 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M Oosterbaan (0000-0002-0895-1842, Utrecht University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 324-353 |
| Publication date | 2021-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1935-4932 • E-ISSN: 1935-4940 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/jlca.12560 |
| OpenAlex | W3209354322 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 41 |
This article examines Evangelical carnaval in Brazil to argue that anthropological writing on syncretization expresses a theoretical gap or shortcoming. In several large Brazilian cities, Evangelicals are currently organizing carnaval parades and performing samba music with percussion instruments. Many Evangelical adherents regard samba as spiritually hazardous because the music genre is perceived to hold Afro-Brazilian religious force. Such an appraisal barred fusions between proselytization and samba in the past, but Evangelical carnaval performers offer a new mode of syncretization that produces fusions previously deemed impossible. This article argues that this mode can be described as Evangelical syncretization and that such mergers are characterized by religious profanation. Participants in Evangelical carnaval codify samba as "cultural" and argue that no music genre is intrinsically malevolent. This semiotic ideology, in combination with a proselytization technique calledestratégia, makes possible Evangelical participation in patrimonial practices associated with Afro-Brazilian religion and allows Evangelicals to employ cultural phenomena as missionary armaments
Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Evangelism · Gospel · Ideology · Literature · Mode (computer interface · Political science · Semiotics · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Law · Music History and Culture · Philosophy · Religious studies · Social and Cultural Dynamics
The mystery of samba
Syncretism/Anti-Syncretism
Introduction
Contesting culture
Fetishes and Monuments
The African Religions of Brazil
Hybridity Brazilian Style
Traços da religiosidade africana no carnaval carioca (Traces of African religiosity in carioca carnival) - DOI
A música gospel e os usos da “arma da cultura”. Reflexões sobre as implicações de uma emenda
How to capture the ‘wow
Syncretism and Its Synonyms
Transatlantic Dialogue
Digging the Africanist Presence in American Performance, Dance and Other Contexts
The Production and Consumption of Culture in Brazil
Introduction
Bahian carnival and social carnivalesque in trans-Atlantic context
Reading roger bastide
Cucumbis Carnavalescos
A"arma da cultura" e os "universalismos parciais
Heritage and the sacred
The Globalization of Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity
Herskovits's Heritage
The Masters and the Slaves [Casa-Grande and Senzala]
Recomposing the Nation. Conceptions and effects of heritage preservation in religious universes
Religion and black cultural identity. Roman Catholics, Afro-Brazilians and Neopentecostalism
Festa como perspectiva e em perspectiva
The Theft of Carnaval
African Gods and Catholic Saints in New World Negro Belief1
Translating the Devil
Legends of People, Myths of State
Sonic Supremacy
Transposing Brazilian Carnival
Where Is the Carnivalesque in Rio's Carnaval? Samba,Mulatasand Modernity
Saintliness and Sincerity in the Formation of the Christian Person
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,6 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2024 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |