Moving between Religions in Brazil: Space and the Analysis of Religious Trajectories

• Autores: Miriam Rabelo
• Localización: Current anthropology: A world journal of the sciences of man, ISSN 0011-3204, Nº. 6, 2015, págs. 848-864
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In this paper, I examine trajectories of religious change in the city Salvador, Northeast Region, Brazil. In doing so, I want to outline a set of alternative questions for the study of people�s movement between religions on the basis of a discussion of space. I argue that a far more complex picture of the trajectories and of their relation to religious change emerges when space is made an object of explicit reflection. To develop this argument, I turn to two important contributions to the debate on space: Mol and Law�s topological approach and Ingold�s explorations on the links between life and the line. As I attempt to show, applying some of their ideas about spatiality to the study of religious trajectories opens new, promising lines of inquiry.