Intercom Revista Brasileira de Ciências da Comunicação

Deterritorialized bodies: new territory-body relationships in Umbanda liturgy

Intercom Revista Brasileira de Ciências da Comunicação 2023 Maurício Ferreira Santana, Geraldo Pieroni

Abstract Based on the assumption that the sacred territory is inseparable from the body, that is, for the religious experience to reach the epiphany/hierophany, it is necessary to connect bodies with their center of the world (ELIADE, 2019), we seek to problematize the context of the deterritorialization of bodies from their sacred space, in the face of a crisis that makes liturgical practice...