RT Article T1 Acupuntura uma conexão com o sagrado e o sagrado na prática terapêutica: materialidade e reflexões = Acupuncture a connection with the sacred and the sacred in therapeutic practice : materiality and reflections JF Ciencias sociales y religión VO 17 IS 22 SP 156 OP 166 A1 Rodrigues, Karine Mendonça LA Portuguese YR 2015 UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1784587184 AB In this work we present reflections on therapeutic practices, especially on calls with acupuncture recommended by an Eastern entity in Umbanda center in the metropolitan region of Porto Alegre. Through an ethnographic experience in the House of the Father Joaquim comes reflections on how these therapies and integrative practices can relate to religion, how this process occurs and how its practitioners realize this integration. Acupuncture and religion, here in the center are completed and why they recommend that you do, but I do without needles, only with the fingers, explains the saint's mother. Such therapy is used, it would be a way to work every part of the human being, uniting their physical, emotional, mental and spiritual aspects and thus giving a greater opportunity to cure for the asker. Ritual aspects of materiality and health-related concepts are relevant observable points and discussion. K1 Acupuncture K1 Materiality K1 Therapeutic practice K1 Umbanda DO 10.22456/1982-2650.55711