“Eu sou porque nós somos”: experiências do emocionar nas aprendizagens umbandistas

Abstract

The present doctoral thesis investigated the learning processes in the spaces where Umbandist religiosity is manifested. It aims to analyze how the learning processes in Umbanda happens. The research has as theoretical foundation the Ubuntu perspective and the Biology of Love by Humberto Maturana. It has as methodological orientation the qualitative research approach in a perspective of life story clippings. Data production in the empirical field was performed through a semistructured interview, inspired by the Piagetian clinical method, and by field diary. The survey counted on ten participants of four umbandista spaces located in four cities of the metropolitan region of Porto Alegre / RS. The research indicates that in Umbanda spaces religious practices do not separate from learning experiences. Both Umbanda subjects, the spaces where their religious practices occur and Umbanda itself are intertwined in a process of mutual development. These learning experiences take place through the signification and resignification of the daily practices that are flooded by the traditional knowledge of Umbanda. Learning in Umbanda is a process of living and knowing in community, where traditional knowledge is intertwined with the settings of the present emotion in Umbanda spaces. In these spaces, there are many ways of learning, representing a great epistemological diversity.