%0 Journal Article %T Or¨ª O! A ideia de Pessoa, a Problem¨¢tica do Destino e o Ritual do B r¨ª entre os Yor¨´b¨¢s e no Candombl¨¦ (Or¨ª O! The Idea of Person, the Problematic of Destiny and the Ritual of B r¨ª among the Yor¨´b¨¢ and in Candombl¨¦) - DOI 10.5752/P.2175-5841.2013v11n29p70 %A Jo£¿o Ferreira Dias %J Horizonte : Revista de Estudos de Teologia e Ci¨ºncias da Religi£¿o %D 2013 %I Pontif¨ªcia Universidade Cat¨®lica de Minas Gerais %R 10.5752/p.2175-5841.2013v11n29p70 %X O presente artigo pretende analisar a ideia de pessoa entre os yor¨´b¨¢s da ¨¢frica Ocidental, a partir da conce o de or¨ª, i. e., a cabe a, entendida entre eles como portadora de personalidade e destino, ideia amplamente difundida pela literatura sobre a mat¨¦ria da personalidade humana e sentidos de destino. A partir do or¨ª, adentrar-se-¨¢ pela problem¨¢tica da predestina o entre os yor¨´b¨¢s e o sentido do ritual de alimento ¨¤ cabe a, o b r¨ª, entre os yor¨´b¨¢s, com refer¨ºncia aos afro-brasileiros do Candombl¨¦. A problematiza o conduzir-nos-¨¢ ¨¤ constata o da pluralidade interpretativa do objeto, ao mesmo tempo que nos deixar¨¢ diante da quest o lingu¨ªstica da tradu o dos conceitos, facto que influi na pr¨®pria constru o teol¨®gica. Ao mesmo tempo estaremos diante da constru o hist¨®rica da religi o yor¨´b¨¢, notoriamente uma religi o dinamica e mut¨¢vel que se fabrica nos di¨¢logos com o cristianismo e islamismo. Processos de transforma o que, ali¨¢s, s o transpon¨ªveis para o Brasil, onde a celebra o do or¨ª se apresenta de modo diferenciado face ¨¤ realidade aut¨®ctone africana. Palavras-chave: Yor¨´b¨¢s. Concep o de pessoa. Or¨ª. Predestina o. B r¨ª. Abstract The present paper aims to analyze the idea of person among the Yor¨´b¨¢ people of Western Africa, taking into account the conception of or¨ª, i.e., the head, which is understood by them as the bowl of human personality and destiny. Those ideas are clearly present in the plural literature concerning the human personality and its destination among the Yor¨´b¨¢ people. Taking the or¨ª as starting point, I shall problematize the predestination idea among the Yor¨´b¨¢ and the meaning of the b r¨ª, the ritual presented as ¡®feeding-the-head¡¯. Such process will be extended to Afro-Brazilian religious system named Candombl¨¦. The problematization will guide my observation to the dramatic plurality of interpretations concerning destiny, while it will spell out the linguistic dilemmas around the translation of concepts. Those dilemmas influence, clearly, the theological construction of the object. At the same time, the paper will deliver us to the evidence of the historical construction of Yor¨´b¨¢ religion, which is a mutable and dynamic religious expression, highly crossed with Christianity and Islam (in African contexts). Those processes of transformation are also clear in Brazil, where the celebration of or¨ª has different religious attitudes comparing to African native ones. Keywords: Yor¨´b¨¢. Idea of person. Or¨ª. Predestination. B r¨ª. %K Yor¨´b¨¢s. Concep o de pessoa. Or¨ª. Predestina o. B r¨ª. Yor¨´b¨¢. Idea of person. Or¨ª. Predestination. B r¨ª. %U http://periodicos.pucminas.br/index.php/horizonte/article/view/3734