Saravá Ogum: a umbanda em procissão

• Autor(a) principal: Ribas, José Dalmo Ribeiro
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/1785
• topic: Procissão de São Jorge; Orixá Ogum; Umbanda; Candomblé; Sincretismo; Umbanda -- Sao Paulo (cidade); Candomble -- Sao Paulo (cidade); Rachid, Jamil -- Pai -- 1933-; Jorge -- Santo -- m. 303 -- Culto; Ogum (orixa); Liberdade religiosa; Orixá Ogum Procession; Religious free practice; Religious liberty; Religious tolerance; Syncretism; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::SOCIOLOGIA::OUTRAS SOCIOLOGIAS ESPECIFICAS

In the mid past century in São Paulo City, the Umbanda Religion had experienced its most critical period concerning religious persecution. Encouraged by very conservative sectors of the society, the police repression was merciless against both male and female spiritualist ministers, braking into the terreiros (the sanctuary place for their practices) and arresting them along with the faithful people around in the name of moral and honest habits. In order to face this situation, in April 1957, following the recommendations from a spiritual head-guide called Exu Pássaro Preto, a group of Umbanda performers living in Jardim Buturuçu neighborhood, in eastern São Paulo, as a gesture of civil contumacy, had initiated the São Jorge (the Orixá Ogum) procession, claiming through this act for their right of free religious expression. This ceremony, that is taking place in 2010 for the very 53rd time, has widened its projection throughout Brazil, bringing outstanding value for the trails of this religion in São Paulo, by becoming a kind of central axis around witch the Umbanda has been built, has raised and reached institutional recognition. This paperwork aims to rescue by the testimony of Babalorixá Jamil Rachid, one of the most recognized leaders of the Umbanda and Candomblé religions in São Paulo, part of the verbal history of this activity, considering that he has been involved since the early 1950s. Besides the depositions caught from the interviews, the here-below information were structured through the research of newspapers, magazines and pictures concerning the São Jorge Procession and owned by the testimony s focal point