A invisível casa vermelha: revelações da invisibilidade nas práticas religiosas da umbanda

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to study the processes of invisibility and subalternization undergone by African religious practitioners within a society deeply marked by slavery, by the imposition of the Catholic faith and by the work of important religious or lay agents, who Responsibility in the construction of approaches, narratives and an oppositional rhetoric that conferred legitimacy for repressive actions and discriminatory practices directed at religious communities of African origin. The method of approaching the question of the negation of the "other" as a legitimate competitor inserted in this religious bias is based on the theoretical framework established by the postcolonialist philosophers, such as Enrique Dussel, who is concerned with the understanding of the "other" By Bourdieu, as a set of preservationist stratagems and control of the goods of salvation, understood as symbolic goods revealed from the religious field. From this approach, which is indicative of the link between religion and specific configurations of power, it is concluded that the invisibility and strategy of survival adopted by Afro-Brazilian religious groups is the result of a taxing action of a slave society that we can now perceive. In this article we seek theoretical and empirical foundations in order to broaden the discussion of these questions that guarantee the manifestation of the plurality of beliefs, especially in the school space, where the religiosity of the African matrix still faces problems of discrimination and acceptance, preventing individuals who Live in that environment without fear of their religious convictions.