Umbanda Terreiro Summary

Young university students in a Umbanda terreiro and the narratives on Afro-Brazilian religions

Summary

Among the different areas of youth activity, young people are particularly motivated, with goals ranging from spiritual needs, leisure, building identities, solidarity actions, to fighting against violence and social injustice. From this context, the present article presents the analysis about the participation of young, middle-class university students in an umbanda “terreiro”, located in a city of the State of Minas Gerais, with the aim of investigating: the knowledge of young people about the formation of umbanda in Brazil; its relation with the processes of the African black diaspora; their understanding of the “terreiro” entities; the