Os outsiders do além: um estudo sobre a quimbanda e outras ‘feitiçarias’ afro-gaúchas

Abstract

This research aims to investigate the meanings of religious experiences related to the practices of Quimbanda, based on analysis of the historical development and current situation of religion in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, aiming to relate and understand (i) the meanings contained in their rites and belief systems, (ii) social forms and the logic of symbolic interaction through which these experiences are organized, (iii) the reasons for its emergence in modern society, (iv) as well as the social implications of their integration and development in the afro-gaúcho scenario. Based on these four classes of questions, research notes referred to the religious experiences in order to include them in a space that produces analytical conditions of intelligibility on alternative modes of human experience of the sacred, about the configuration of the elaborate religious identities in contemporary urban contexts and negotiations of reality present in these processes.