O exorcismo da alteridade: o ideário cristão e a construção histórica e social das religiosidades de matriz africana como expressão do satanismo

Abstract

The proposed work is based on the idea that the hegemonic representations of evil (as it regards the religious phenomenon), within the Brazilian society still based on Christianity. This point of view is the essence of the historical process and social matrix of Christian religiousness since its origin in order to establish its hegemony to other religions. Realizing that, the representations of religiousnesses in general have been associated with evil, as imposed economic, political and ideological process in the West. This ideology has had a continuity throughout social and racial relations that date since the beginning of Colonization. Such religiousness established as a common sense imagination the idea that all African related religions are associated to Satanism, therefore they all embody evil. This study attempts to show that the borders of otherness Christian hegemony is established by this assumption: "Macumba is a thing of the devil." Including as more private aspects of the training of World Vision Society Alagoano examples, in the event of break in 1912, that speech has its historical character and reverberates strongly in our reality. What our modernity resulted in a field of religious disputes, where the hegemony of the Christian religions of African matrix is still latent. The result of this dispute, in our view, is the establishment of boundaries of religious alterity, which eventually creating undoubtedly fields of marginality. However, we can observe that those who still take that religiousness stigma of marginality begin to organize, the liturgy, as the political intention of which is demystified and constructed an identity rooted in ideals such as purity Nagô and the struggle for freedom of religious expression. Finally, the general intention of this work is to contribute to the formation of discursive fields of religious dialogue in the vast Brazilian scenario.