Spirituality and religiosity for umbandist and candomblecist women: social representation and health implications.

Autor: Gomes AMT; Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Boulevard 28 de Setembro 157, Vila Isabel. 20551-030 Rio de Janeiro RJ Brasil. mtosoli@gmail.com., Silva CM; Universidade de São Paulo. São Paulo SP Brasil., Brandão JL; Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Boulevard 28 de Setembro 157, Vila Isabel. 20551-030 Rio de Janeiro RJ Brasil. mtosoli@gmail.com., Couto PLS; Universidade do Estado da Bahia. Salvador BA Brasil., Merces MCD; Universidade do Estado da Bahia. Salvador BA Brasil., Araújo MÂM; Universidade Federal do Ceará. Fortaleza CE Brasil., Coelho MMF; Universidade Federal do Ceará. Fortaleza CE Brasil., Yarid SD; Universidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia. Cidade BA Brasil.
Jazyk: Portuguese; English
Zdroj: Ciencia & saude coletiva [Cien Saude Colet] 2023 Sep; Vol. 28 (9), pp. 2721-2731. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Jan 12.
DOI: 10.1590/1413-81232023289.20172022
Abstrakt: The object of study refers to the representations of spirituality and religiosity for women who belong to Afro-diasporic religions, specifically those who are faithful to Umbanda and Candomblé. The objective was to analyze the representational structure of spirituality and religiosity for Umbandist and Candomblecist women with the aim of thinking of an explanatory model of this symbolic construction and implications for the practice of care in the area of health. Qualitative study, in the light of Social Representations in its structural approach. Data collected with 207 Umbandist and Candomblecist women through free evocations of the inducing terms "spirituality" and "religiosity", in addition to the characterization and scale of religiosity. The evocations were submitted to prototypical and similarity analyses with Iramuteq, while quantitative data to descriptive statistics. The results show that the central elements for religiosity are faith, belief, God and love, while for spirituality, they are faith, Orixás, God, peace and love. The tree of similarity explains the centrality of faith for the structuring of this representation. The representations are organized around the idea of ​​a relationship between the human and the divine.
Databáze: MEDLINE