This page groups sacred sites by whether their sacred status is still actively maintained. Wikipedia notes that Mircea Eliade "argues that while the concept of a sacred space is often associated with religious traditions, it is not exclusive to them," since secular societies can keep treating a place as significant too. Browsing this way lets a visitor tell a site with living religious observance apart from one preserved mainly for its history.
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What Defines This GroupingTerreiros: walled compounds in which shrine houses for individual orixas stand among consecrated trees, stones and springs. The ground and its plantings are themselves the sanctuary, which is why heritage law written for buildings protects them badly. 2 Peoples and Traditions CoveredCandomble is organised in nacoes: Ketu and Nago from Yoruba practice, Jeje from Fon and Ewe, Angola from Bantu-speaking Central Africa. Each has its own liturgical language and its own spirits. They are distinct houses, not dialects of one religion. 2 Status
Status TodayA living Afro-Brazilian religion whose senior houses trace continuous lineages of initiation from the early nineteenth century to the present. Beyond the public barracao where ceremonies are shown, a terreiro is closed. What is transmitted in initiation is not published, and the existence of ethnography about it is not a licence to reproduce it. 2 Learn More
Candomble sacred sites
This small group holds a sacred site of Candomble, the Afro-Brazilian religion whose terreiros (temple compounds) are consecrated spaces for the worship of the orixas, brought to Brazil by enslaved Africans and living today especially in Bahia.
The browser will find the site the atlas classes here. The entry describes its significance within the living Candomble tradition.
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Sites grouped for Candomble.
Source Black Atlantic Religion: Tradition, Transnationalism, and Matriarchy in the Afro-Brazilian CandombleJ. Lorand Matory
Sources
1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Tree
2. Black Atlantic Religion: Tradition, Transnationalism, and Matriarchy in the Afro-Brazilian Candomble
J. Lorand Matory, Princeton University Press, 2005on the terreiro and its groundView the Source Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptions
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