Desecrating the Sacred: Linguistic Appropriation of Nagô Expressions and the Articulation of Religious Repression in Salvador, Brazil

Comprehensively understanding religious repression requires a critical examination of discursive-linguistic practices, given that language is a semiotic resource for ritual practice and negotiations of religious identity. Language has also been weaponized within colonial domination and religious sub...

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Main Author: Washington, Adrienne Ronee (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: The Pennsylvania State University Press 2021
In: Journal of Africana religions
Year: 2021, Volume: 9, Issue: 2, Pages: 165-202
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Salvador / Yoruba language / Concept of / Cultural appropriation / Religion / Oppression
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
AX Inter-religious relations
BB Indigenous religions
CH Christianity and Society
KBN Sub-Saharan Africa
KBR Latin America
NCC Social ethics
Further subjects:B Sociolinguistics
B Indexicality
B Yoruba
B misappropriation
B religious subordination
B Semiotics
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