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      Entre França e Brasil: viagens antropológicas num campo (religioso) minado

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          Resumo Partindo da premissa de que o par sociológico clássico “religião/seita” não possui a mesma densidade histórica ou o mesmo valor descritivo em todos os contextos, a autora investiga as atividades de uma associação francesa empenhada no combate às “seitas”, tomando como foco de análise as acusações contra um determinado templo umbandista em Paris. As acusações, visando tanto as pretensões terapêuticas quanto as pretensões religiosas do templo, seriam calcadas numa percepção que busca traduzir experiências diversificadas em princípios únicos e de valor universal. Na sua defesa, os representantes do templo destacam sua tentativa sistemática e institucionalizada de incorporar os diferentes universos “étnicos” da sua população como meios adequados para conviver com as diferenças culturais numa mesma nação. A comparação dos dois discursos mostra como o projeto multiculturalista americano contrasta fortemente com o projeto francês de homogeneização das diferenças.

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          Abstract Working on the premiss that the classical sociological dichotomy between “religion” and “sect” does not possess the same historical density or the same descriptive value in ali contexts, the author investigates the activities of a French association created to combat “sects “, centering her analysis on accusations against a particular umbanda temple located in Paris. The accusations, aimed at both the temple’s therapeutic and religious pretensions, are couched in a perception which seeks to translate diversified experiences into unified principles of universal value. In its defense, the representatives of the temple underline their systematic and institutionalized policy of incorporating the different “ethnic” universes of its population as an adequate way of living with cultural differences within a same nation. The comparison of the two discourses underlines a strong contrast between the multicultural project typical of the Americas and the French perspective which sees the homogeneization of differences as being in the nation’s best interests.

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                Journal
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                Horizontes Antropológicos
                Horiz.antropol.
                Programa de Pós-graduação em Antropologia Social - IFCH-UFRGS (Porto Alegre )
                0104-7183
                May 1999
                : 5
                : 10
                : 35-60
                Affiliations
                [1 ] Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro Brazil
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                S0104-71831999000100035
                10.1590/S0104-71831999000100003
                c3e5a4c4-7a1a-40d0-ba30-83ba07786b26

                http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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                Afro-Brazilian cults,France,religion,sects,cultos afro-brasileiros,França,religião,seitas

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