Encruzilhada multicultural: estratégias de legitimação das práticas religiosas afro-umbandistas no Rio Grande do Sul

Abstract

The objective of this work consists of fostering a reflection on social legitimation strategies undertaken by the Afro-umbandist community in Rio Grande do Sul. Accordingly, this investigation also aims to understand possible political initiatives concerning processes of occupation in the public arena, as well as proposes to analyze claim systems and practices of the social negotiation applied by actors coming from the Afro-religious field in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Initially, the analysis intends to construct a mapping of the main complexities that African-originated religions have faced in their contemporary social realities. From this point, we have started the observation of strategic aspects outlined by the members of these religions, which were categorized from three approaches. In the first one, morphological legitimation aspects have been addressed and understood in the figure of main active instances with claim purposes, especially in institutional and federative fields. The second one has been re