O ritual do "lava-pés” no Ogum Megê: brico lagens do imaginário umbandista português

Abstract

Taking the Portuguese religious experience as the focus of interest, the following paper deals with the transmission and the localized transformations of Afro-Brazilian religions, especially under the effects of the displacements and transpositions of religious practices and reflecting on some facts like the performance of the Christian ritual of footwashing within the Portuguese Umbanda context, the immigration of initiated Portuguese women and the market of goods and services for the faithful, it advances some ideas about such processes and the need of reinventing and recreating umbanda’s cults and rituals by followers.