If You Have Faith, Exu Responds on-line: The Day-to-Day Life of Quimbanda on Social Networks

IF 0.3 0 RELIGION

Open Theology Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI:10.1515/opth-2022-0227

J. Bahia, F. Nogueira

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Abstract

Abstract The present work analyzes the interface between Quimbanda and the digital environment in the daily life of a Quimbandeiro. Quimbanda is an Afro-Brazilian faith that has grown in the virtual universe through consultations and other uses of digital media. In addition to analyzing the Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram pages of these religious groups, we interviewed and followed the daily life of a teacher and also conducted bibliographic research on the subject. In their daily practices, Quimbandeiros use the internet as a space for interaction, quotidian practices of care, and the manufacture of spells. We analyze how digital interaction presents this religious belief in the virtual public sphere and the interconnections between religious and technological narratives. Quimbanda, a somewhat stigmatized religion, expands its boundaries in virtual mode. In the case analyzed in this article, Quimbandeiro work is directly linked to the movements of Exu, the entity who controls the crossroads. Through the mediation of the production of religious images, Exu expands his spiritual and technological presence offline, flooding online communities with meaning.

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如果你有信仰，Exu在线回应:社交网络上的昆班达日常生活

摘要本研究分析了昆班达与数字环境在昆班达人日常生活中的交互关系。Quimbanda是一种非裔巴西人的信仰，通过协商和其他数字媒体的使用在虚拟世界中发展起来。除了分析这些宗教团体的Facebook, WhatsApp和Instagram页面外，我们还采访并跟踪了一位老师的日常生活，并对该主题进行了书目研究。在他们的日常实践中，quimbandiros使用互联网作为互动，日常护理和制造咒语的空间。我们分析了数字互动如何在虚拟公共领域呈现这种宗教信仰，以及宗教和技术叙事之间的相互联系。Quimbanda，一个有点被污名化的宗教，在虚拟模式中扩展了它的边界。在本文分析的案例中，Quimbandeiro的工作与控制十字路口的实体Exu的运动直接相关。通过宗教图像的中介，Exu扩展了他在线下的精神和技术存在，使在线社区充满意义。

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Open Theology RELIGION-

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1.00

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审稿时长

15 weeks

期刊介绍： Open Theology is an international Open Access, peer-reviewed academic journal that welcomes contributions written in English addressing religion in its various forms and aspects: historical, theological, sociological, psychological, and other. The journal encompasses all major disciplines of Theology and Religious Studies, presenting doctrine, history, organization and everyday life of various types of religious groups and the relations between them. We publish articles from the field of Theology as well as Philosophy, Sociology and Psychology of Religion and also dialogue between Religion and Science. The Open Theology does not present views of any particular theological school nor of a particular religious organization. The contributions are written by researchers who represent different religious views. The authors present their research concerning the old religious traditions as well as new religious movements. The aim of the journal is to promote an international and interdisciplinary dialogue in the field of Theology and Religious Studies. The journal seeks also to provide researchers, pastors and other interested persons with the fruits of academic studies.