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Etnográfica

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DIAS, João Ferreira. Religion is made with the harvest of land: a conceptual questioning of “religion” in Africa and the Yorùbá case. []. , 17, 3, pp.457-476. ISSN 0873-6561.

This paper aims to focus on the concept of “religion” and its conceptual implications to the observation of African religions taking the Yorùbá religious attitudes and beliefs, as well as candomblé’s, as case studies. It is our intention to trace a new itinerary in the conceptualization of African religious experiences taking the native structures as the scenery for theory. Having present the idea that religion in those contexts is made, it is intended to present alternative categories to the classic “monotheism”, “polytheism” and “pantheon”.

: Yorùbá; candomblé; religion; operative categories; localism; Africa.

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