UFRN professor launches book on the ancestry of Afro-Brazilian religions

The production of knowledge linked to Afro-Brazilian religions is the subject of the book “Egbé: ancestralities, articulations and heritage”, organized by professor Luiz Assunção, from the Department of Anthropology at UFRN. The work, which will be launched on May 30th, at 6pm, at the Newton Navarro gallery at Capitania das Artes, is the result of intense academic work carried out as part of postgraduate studies with researchers of Afro-Brazilian religions and cultural collectives from the city of Natal.
The publication brings together texts by researchers such as Babalorixá, Juremeiro, Ogã, Vawó, Abiã, who have training and work in Social Sciences, and who produce knowledge on topics linked to Afro-Brazilian religions. The organizer's intention is to record the ethnographic experience of the meetings, seeking to encompass the life narratives of religious leaders and their ancestries, ritualistic conceptions and their daily practices.
Furthermore, the book is willing to bring a reflection on constituted political relations, issues relating to religious intolerance, the production of religious architectural heritage, religious symbolic expressions in parties, dances, in the body in performance.
The publication of the work was approved by Public Selection No. 05/2022 – Financial Support for Religious Cultural Expressions 2022 –, promoted by the Capitania das Artes Cultural Foundation (FUNCARTE) of Natal City Hall.