UMBANDA REENCANTAMENTO NA PÓS-MODERNIDADE?

Abstract

The present work analyzes the thematic 'Umbanda' under the prism of the possibility of reenchantment in the post-modern context. It has as goals: highlight the main characteristics of the post-modernity; study the historicalcultural characteristics of Umbanda and compare the present elements at Centro Espírita Mensageiros da Caridade - CEMEC, in Goiânia and verify influence of the post-modernity existence. So that, it approaches the secularization and the post-modernity historically; after that it rises the characteristics of the practice of Umbanda, as well as, the case of Centro Espírita Mensageiros da Caridade and its position as reenchantment alternative in the goianiense society. The researches point for a disenchant of the followers and visitors, to the religion that they traditionally attended, as well as a to discredit in the treatment of the modern sciences: the Medicine, Psychiatry and Psychology. Even the work assistencial accomplished at CEMEC, it is under the orientation of the spiritual guides. This way, it is insured the axis of umbandística means: the phenomenon of the incorporation. This study demonstrated that the people find answers to their needs and longings, in a much more fully way than in their churches, according to their own depositions. The center intends to propitiate a ' treatment' of the body, of the mind, of the spirit and, even of the financial. That s because they represent a model of integration, building an ideology of acceptance of the diversity that facilitates the reaffirmation of the individual's identity in the community in their lives and in the society as a whole. In consequence, the identity of the religion is reaffirmed and rediscovered her of an enchantment for the people that frequent it and they find in her answers to its longings and needs of happiness, prosperity and peacefulness. It is a field opened as religious possibility of reenchantment in the Brazilian society.