WOMEN IN RELIGIOUS CONTEXT: BETWEEN RESISTANCE AND/OR SUBORDINATION
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This article presents a discussion on black women and their strategies of resistance in two different religious contexts: African - born religions and Pentecostal / Neo - Pentecostal religions. Both contexts can be identified as spaces of protagonism of black women, in which they occupy positions of the high priestly hierarchy. At the same time, however, they constitute places of inequalities and hierarchies. We find that black women have a historical, social and political trajectory of resistance and leadership. Making it possible for so many evangelicals as the candomblecistas and umbandistas to identify themselves when it comes to the construction and elaboration of the confrontation with the processes of racism and sexism suffered inside and outside the religious context.
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