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This paper has as its starting assumption Freud’s thesis, such as developed in Totem and Taboo, according to which there is a universal correlation between sex, guilt, religion and atonement. Yet, the management of guilt varies according to the peculiarities of each religious system, of which two basic varieties are highlighted here. In the first of these varieties, atonement is associated with a general conduct of life and regulation of behavior, including very much sexual 1 Possui graduacao em Filosofia pela Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (1962), mestrado em Ciencias Sociais e Desenvolvimento Institute of Social Sciences, em Haia, Holanda (1964) e doutorado em Antropologia Columbia University (1973), alem de pos-doutorados em Paris, Harvard e Los Angeles. Professor da Universidade Federal da Paraiba. (Campina Grande). 120 REVISTA ESBOCOS Volume 17, No 23, pp. 119-139 — UFSC behavior, while in the second atonement results from material sacrifice that does not necessarily entails asceticism, repression, or a system of ethics. This second variety is represented by the Xango, the main form of Afro-Brazilian religion of Pernambuco (Brazil). Even apart from the Freudian thesis adopted throughout this paper, the author’s long and intensive field work, done mainly in 70’s and 80’s of the past century, would be enough to confirm the centrality of blood sacrifice in the Xango as well as the scant importance it attributes (in comparison with traditional Christianity) to repression and asceticism, leading to marked tolerance vis a vis sexual behavior in practically all of its varieties.

Sexo, Culpa, Sacrifício e Expiação no Xangô de PernambucoDOI: 10.5007/2175-7976.2010v17n23p119

Sexo, Culpa, Sacrifício e Expiação no Xangô de Pernambuco
DOI: 10.5007/2175-7976.2010v17n23p119