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This article explores the role of religious apprenticeship in the Xangô cult of Recife, Brazil, challenging the common narrative of a "return to African roots" in Afro-Brazilian religions. Halloy argues that the construction of "traditional" knowledge within the Xangô cult is primarily achieved through the valuation of ritual know-how, legitimized by its own conditions of transmission. Rather than a mystical return to Africa, the perpetuation and invention of tradition in this context is fundamentally about learning to transmit traditionally. The article analyzes the discourse of cult members on "tradition" and the practices that enact it, revealing how the transmission of ritual knowledge itself constitutes the core of tradition.

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