Quando a “Avamunha” não bate: o conflito como aspecto estruturante do Candomblé em Portugal

Abstract

The transnationalization of Candomblé to Portugal represents a strong process of religious reconfiguration that has been a matter of discussion in the anthropological literature. Despite the existence of a Candomblé reconfiguration amid its adoption in Portugal that demonstrates Candomblé’s foundational plasticity and the need of reconfiguration in a new social and cultural environment, this paper stresses the sociological phenomenon of conflict between local practitioners, presenting it as a structural element of the Portuguese Candomblé religiosity, which invokes the existence of constructing and reconstructing alliances based on the criteria of nationality, sexuality, and religious market demands.

Keywords

• candomblé
• portugal
• conflict
• religious market