INVESTIGADORES
FRIGERIO Alejandro
capítulos de libros
Título:
Umbanda
Autor/es:
ALEJANDRO FRIGERIO
Libro:
The Sage Encyclopedia of the Sociology of Religion
Editorial:
Sage
Referencias:
Año: 2020; p. 873 - 874
Resumen:
Umbanda is one of the most popular variants of Afro-Brazilian religions. It developed in the first decades of the XXth century in the Rio de Janeiro area and has been read, sociologically, as an attempt by White, middle class spiritists to adapt the Afro-Brazilian religions to their habitus and morality. They did this by discarding their African characteristics that they found most offensive: animal sacrifices, drumming, possession trance dancing.
