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The Multiple Agencies of Afro-Brazilian Religions
in Religion and Society
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Roger Sansi
Roger Sansi
Goldsmiths, University of London ans01rsr@gold.ac.uk
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Luis Nicolau Parés
Luis Nicolau Parés
Federal University of Bahia ncmata@ufba.br
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The debates on identity politics and the invention of tradition led the study of Afro-Brazilian religions to a certain impasse in the 1990s. However, in the last several years, the field has been totally renewed, although in different directions. In this article we will consider some of these new trends, from a wider historical engagement with the Atlantic world, through the religious field and the public sphere, to new approaches to spirit possession and cosmology. Our objective is to assess the extent to which these new debates have managed to overcome this impasse.