THE EGÚNGÚN CULT IN BRAZIL: DIASPORA, ANCESTRALITY AND BLACK RESISTANCE IN BRAZILIAN CITIES
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The present work aims to reveal and discuss ethnic-racial relations, above all, the racism present in Brazilian cities from the Diaspora process of the Egúngún cult in Brazil and its black resistance tactics through ancestry in the Brazilian urban space. Questioning the relationship between Candomblé and the city, oppression of the wider society x black resistance in three periods: police persecution and criminalization of worship in the 1920s-1940s; real estate speculation and 'white' expulsion in the 1960s-1980s; and the persecution of neo-Pentecostal cults and religious intolerance today. This relationship will take place through the historical unveiling of the mother terreiro, in the 20th century, of the Cult of Egum (the cult of the illustrious dead, the ancestors), the Omo Ilê Agboulá, located in the village of Ponta de Areia, municipality of Itaparica. This terreiro was listed as Cultural Heritage of Brazil by IPHAN in 2015.
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