Sustentabilidade religiosa e ambiental

as possibilidades da Umbanda

Abstract

Umbanda, through its rituals and symbols in religious meetings, promotes an integration, in a mythical level, of all social categories. When giving rise to the identity of Umbanda, as a social and cultural practice, this syncretic and modern religion may keep alive marginalized groups’ hope to occupy spaces of social prestige and to create models of coexistence, which prioritise sustainabilities that overpass the meaning of nature, from a geographical accident possessing cultural values to the creation of a possible and more sympathetic social space. Assuming that RMRJ expresses its plurality of meanings, interrelations among the various dimensions of spatial practices and their proximity to the cultural practices, it is shown that Umbanda
presents potent mechanisms of transformations of the current social-environmental conditions, which may create a new paradigm of environmental education in terms of territory management.