%0 Journal Article %T O dom e a inicia£¿£¿o revisitados: o dado e o feito em religi£¿es de matriz africana no brasil %A Goldman %A Marcio %J Mana %D 2012 %I Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro %R 10.1590/S0104-93132012000200002 %X beginning with the known opposition between that which derives from the "gift" and that which derives from "initiation" in african-oriented religions in brazil, this work aims to ethnographically demonstrate that said dualism actually conceals a triadism. the unfolding of ethnographic analysis in the article will, however, lead us to replace this triadism with a model that is simultaneously unified and multiple. in this, "participation" (in its multiple meanings) should have a place next to the "gift" and "initiation" and the three categories should be construed as updates of a single under-lying principle. %K african-brazilian religions %K gift %K initiation %K ritual %K cosmology %K roy wagner. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0104-93132012000200002&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en