A sacralização das existências marginais: notas sobre a emergência da quimbanda nos cultos afro-gaúchos

Authors

  • Rodrigo Marques Leistner Universidade Federal do Rio Grande (FURG)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22478/ufpb.1982-6605.2020v18n1.59639

Abstract

The paper evaluates the meanings of the religious experiences that are articulated in the Quimbanda cults, a ritual subcategory of Afro-Gaucho religiosities. Organized from the cult of the marginal ancestors of Brazilian society (called ‘Exus’ and ‘Pombagiras’), Quimbanda expresses itself precisely from symbolic contents associated with the idea of marginality: moral ambiguity, eroticism and symbolic violence are constitutive elements of this practice, observing religious experiences that incorporate as positive the elements rejected in more conventional notions about the universe of the sacred. It should also be noted that this cult has developed a special dimension in the African religious field of Rio Grande do Sul, which promotes reflections not only on the contents of its symbolic frontiers, but especially on the meaning of its emergence today. It is assessed that it is from a kind of axiological neutrality contained in the signs of this religious forms that different individual and collective projects find support for expression, above all with regard to models of subjectivity socially conceived as "marginal".

Keywords: afro-gaucho religions; Quimbanda; contemporary religious experiences.

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Author Biography

Rodrigo Marques Leistner, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande (FURG)

Doutor em Ciências Sociais pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Sociais da Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (2014 - Bolsista CAPES). É Mestre em Ciências Sociais (2009 - Bolsista CAPES) e graduado em Comunicação Social (Hab. Publicidade e Propaganda - 2006) pela mesma instituição.

Professor da Área de Sociologia da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande – FURG. Doutor em Ciências Sociais pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Sociais da Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos – UNISINOS.

Published

2022-02-11

How to Cite

LEISTNER, Rodrigo Marques. A sacralização das existências marginais: notas sobre a emergência da quimbanda nos cultos afro-gaúchos. Religare, [S. l.], v. 18, n. 1, p. 48–80, 2022. DOI: 10.22478/ufpb.1982-6605.2020v18n1.59639. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufpb.br/index.php/religare/article/view/59639. Acesso em: 15 aug. 2026.