When the body opens the world: anthropophagic provocations for the study of religion

Authors

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.23925/1677-1222.2020vol20i1a3

Keywords:

Anthropogenesis, Amerindian perspectivism, Religion, Body

Abstract

Starting from an anthropogenetic point of view that shapes the Modern thought, the paper proposes a provocative discussion between the limits of Western concepts of body and humanity – based upon a fundamental ontology – and the Amerindian perspectivism as a theoretical synthesis. The paper will work with the representativeness of two bodies (Michelangelo’s David and Davi Kopenawa, a Yanomami Shaman) and their potential contributions to think about other kinds
of humanities, taking the implications of an animist ontology as an (anthropophagic) exercise of decolonization, also for the theoretical-epistemological discussions in the study of religion.

Author Biographies

Maria Cecília Simões, UFJF

Professora permanente do PPG em ciência da religião da UFJF. Doutora em ciência da religião (UFJF).

Paulo Henrique Lopes

Doutorando em ciência da religião (UFJF).

Downloads

Published

2020-06-24

Issue

Vol. 20 No. 1 (2020): O corpo em movimento: espiritualidade e transcendência

Section

Seção Temática

License

Authors who publish in this journal agree with the following terms:

  • Authors retain copyright, but grant the journal the right of first publication, with the work simultaneously licensed under the Creative Commons BY-NC License.
  • Authors are authorized to assume additional contracts separately, for non-exclusive distribution of the work published in this journal (e.g., publishing in an institutional repository or as a book chapter), as long as with acknowledgment of authorship and first publication in this journal.