"Orixás do Dique": estudo sobre religião e espaço público em Salvador-Bahia
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description: The purpose of this paper is to present the case related to the "Orixás do Dique". This is an emblematic case which focuses on Dique do Tororó, a public space in the city of Salvador, where since 1998 the sculptures named orixás made by artist Tatti Moreno have been installed in partnership with the Government of Bahia. In order to perform this task, it was necessary to recover the historical records that indicate its status as a black territory historically constituted and used by the Afro-Brazilian cults. It was also necessary to recover the so-called "Bahia afro", that is, the intellectual, artistic and political circuit of exaltation of some Afro-Brazilian elements printed in the Bahian culture and encoded in a language favorable to tourism and entertainment. It was also necessary to explore the religious conflict that proceeded from the evangelical criticism sent to the legislative council against the sculptures. Emphasizing the scale of the problems that the case evokes (such as spatial desacralization, the folklorization of Afro-religious symbols and artistic censorship for "religious intolerance"), we present results that suggest an afro-religious audience whose political agglutination to determine the course of the problems that afflict it.
abstract: The purpose of this paper is to present the case related to the "Orixás do Dique". This is an emblematic case which focuses on Dique do Tororó, a public space in the city of Salvador, where since 1998 the sculptures named orixás made by artist Tatti Moreno have been installed in partnership with the Government of Bahia. In order to perform this task, it was necessary to recover the historical records that indicate its status as a black territory historically constituted and used by the Afro-Brazilian cults. It was also necessary to recover the so-called "Bahia afro", that is, the intellectual, artistic and political circuit of exaltation of some Afro-Brazilian elements printed in the Bahian culture and encoded in a language favorable to tourism and entertainment. It was also necessary to explore the religious conflict that proceeded from the evangelical criticism sent to the legislative council against the sculptures. Emphasizing the scale of the problems that the case evokes (such as spatial desacralization, the folklorization of Afro-religious symbols and artistic censorship for "religious intolerance"), we present results that suggest an afro-religious audience whose political agglutination to determine the course of the problems that afflict it.
author: Goes, Alexandre dos Santos
language: pt_BR
keywords: Orixás, Dique do Tororó, Público, Salvador - BA, Escultura, Religião
date published: 2019-04-05
date modified: 2026-07-27T22:07:56Z
provider: Brazil UFBA
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
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source organization: Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas