Language Practices in Afro-Brazilian Religions: On Legitimacy, Oral Tradition, and Racial Issues

Cristine G. Severo; Ana Cláudia F. Eltermann; Sinfree Makoni

doi:10.4324/9781003007074-20

Language Practices in Afro-Brazilian Religions: On Legitimacy, Oral Tradition, and Racial Issues

Cristine G. Severo, Ana Cláudia F. Eltermann, Sinfree Makoni

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This chapter articulates and argues that language is a multilayered and intersemiotic sign with social and political and religious significance in Afro-Brazilian contexts. We argue that there is no way to imagine what counts as Brazil - and Brazilian languages - without reference to Africa and its cultural legacy and the impact of slavery on Brazil. We evoke a number of concepts in our analysis particularly the notions of Southern multilingualisms and pluriversality. We use both concepts to analyze how languages are used in African Brazilian religious practices, drawing on the ways people build both individual and collective religious experiences. The religious experiences involve a use and interpretation of language in creative and at times unpredictable ways.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	The Routledge Handbook of Language and the Global South/s
Publisher	Taylor and Francis
Pages	202-212
Number of pages	11
ISBN (Electronic)	9781000600131
ISBN (Print)	9780367440145
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003007074-20
State	Published - Jan 1 2022

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