Universal politics: Neo-Pentecostalism, Candomblé and politics of space/race

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  • Rachel Cantave American University Anthropology Department 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW Washington DC 20016-8003

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With an acute awareness across the globe of widening economic inequalities and an increasingly elusive middle class, where do religious institutions fit into modern social and political ideologies? Examining interviews and ethnographic notes from data compiled in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, I will seek to answer two main questions: First, how does the Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus/ Universal Church of the Kingdom of God fit or not fit into neoliberal agenda/ ideology? Second, how does the Afro-Brazilian religion Candomblé fit or not fit into the neoliberal model? Comparing the socio-cultural and symbolic alignments of neo-Pentecostalism and Candomblé and how each religion facilitates different types of political subject formation in regard to space and racial consciousness, I conclude by remarking on the increasing fragmentation of afro-Brazilian religious subjects as each religious institution seeks to gain political influence utilizing conflicting socio-political ideologies.

Keywords: neo-Pentecostalism, Candomblé, neoliberal, ideology, space, race

 

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Rachel Cantave, American University Anthropology Department 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW Washington DC 20016-8003

Rachel Cantave is a PhD Candidate at American University in Washington DC.  She is of Haitian-American descent and received her BA from the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University. She studied colonial/post-colonial theory, history, and literature of Latin America and the Caribbean. Rachel's current research interests include religion, morality, race, and social justice. In 2011, she won a Tinker Field Grant to do pre-dissertation research on Neo-Pentecostalism in Brazil. Rachel recently completed a Fulbright Research Grant compiling data for her dissertation, a comparative study of religion’s influence on moral attitudes and social justice based community programs in Bahia, Brazil.

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2015-09-30

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Cantave, R. (2015). Universal politics: Neo-Pentecostalism, Candomblé and politics of space/race. Revista Ciências Da Religião - História E Sociedade, 13(1). Recuperado de http://editorarevistas.mackenzie.br/index.php/cr/article/view/7934

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