A A Franciscan Congregation in Umbanda of Rio Grande do Sul

The Francisco de Assis Spiritist Center: History and Memory

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https://doi.org/10.5216/hr.v27i1.69232

Abstract

This text has a main concern of showing an original religious reality that emerged in Porto Alegre, RS, in the 1930s. It is about the first considered Umbanda house in the city and the second in the state: the Abrigo Espírita Francisco de Assis. This reality points to the plasticity of Umbanda, not susceptible to analytical generalizations and macro explanatory schemes. The Francisco de Assis Center shelters the Congregation of Franciscan Spiritists of Umbanda. Both the identity construction of the Congregation and the public image of its founder, Laudelino Manoel de Souza Gomes, followed parameters tending to contradict social expectations regarding blacks, with Catholicism as a religious horizon. From the proposal of its founder, the Congregation, alongside prescribing an ascetic ideal with interfaces in the Franciscan Third Order, arrived at doctrinal solutions and original rituals.

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Author Biography

Artur Cesar Isaia, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, arturci@uol.com.br

Doutor em História Social pela Universidade de São Paulo; mestre em História pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul e graduado em História pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul..Desenvolveu estágio de pós-doutoramento na École de Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales em Paris e no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Antropologia da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Professor Titular em História da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina.

Published

2023-05-30

How to Cite

ISAIA, A. C. A A Franciscan Congregation in Umbanda of Rio Grande do Sul: The Francisco de Assis Spiritist Center: History and Memory. História Revista, Goiânia, v. 27, n. 1, p. 279–296, 2023. DOI: 10.5216/hr.v27i1.69232. Disponível em: https://revistas.ufg.br/historia/article/view/69232. Acesso em: 11 may. 2024.