Religious transitions and border making in southeast Brazilian spiritual landscape – the encruzilhada (crossroads) perspective

This article discusses religious transitions and border making in Southeast Brazil. The study is based on 11 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo (2011–2015). The article navigates the Southeast Brazilian cross-religious spiritual landscape, shedding light on the knowledg...

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Main Author: Lundell, Eleonora (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge 2022
In: Religion
Year: 2022, Volume: 52, Issue: 1, Pages: 102-121
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Brazil (Südost) / Umbanda / Candomblé / Interreligiosity / Afro-American syncretism / Crossing / Border crossing
IxTheo Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
AF Geography of religion
AG Religious life; material religion
AX Inter-religious relations
AZ New religious movements
BB Indigenous religions
KBR Latin America
Further subjects:B Umbanda
B Candomblé
B spiritual landscape
B Religious transitions
B encruzilhada
B Afro-Brazilian religions
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Summary:This article discusses religious transitions and border making in Southeast Brazil. The study is based on 11 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo (2011–2015). The article navigates the Southeast Brazilian cross-religious spiritual landscape, shedding light on the knowledges and experiences of Umbanda and Candomblé leaders, devotees and clients, as well as my own experiences as a researcher crossing through different religious environments. The research results show that besides institutions and identities, the religious lines of association emerge via acknowledgement of spatial/territorial engagements with humans and other-than-humans (spirits, entities, orixás, egums). The study argues that beyond the conventional conceptualization of syncretism and hybridism, the concept of the encruzilhada (crossroads) allows a deeper understanding of the unexpected range of phenomena and ongoing transit, exchange and mutual influence in the epistemologically pluriversal spiritual landscape of Southeast Brazil.
ISSN:1096-1151
Contains:Enthalten in: Religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/0048721X.2021.2011084