Entre o espelho e a encruza, entre a espada e a estrada: uma autoetnografia sobre desenvolvimento mediúnico na umbanda, quimbanda e linha de ciganos

Abstract

Through sharing the experienced process of developing and learning Umbanda mediumship, this article aims to approach readers of the religious practices through descriptive writing and autoethnographic method. It is an account of experimenting pedagogical, social, political and organizational phenomena that involve life in the terreiro. Documenting the development, through the perspective of those who experience it, is a way of demonstrating to the followers of these religious beliefs that it is indeed possible to play a leading role in the construction of ethnographic knowledge.