A Umbanda nos jornais: variações e modulações no tempo dos registros em “O Estado de S. Paulo” e “O Globo”

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The main purpose of this research is to understand how record of Umbanda historically occurs in the great circulation newspapers, which represent, in some way, the thinking of the hegemonic classes in Brazil, in the cities where the research is based: São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Additionally, our efforts verify possible differences or similarities in the records of the same phenomenon, seeking to understand the regional nuances. In order to do so, we delimit the geographic and temporal coverage of the context of the large circulation newspapers published in the two regions, O ESTADO DE S. PAULO, of São Paulo, and O GLOBO, of Rio de Janeiro, during the periods of the 1960s, 1980s and 2000s, seeking to identify reports and other elements that contribute to the proposed objectives. The adopted methodology is the bibliographic-exploratory, with the purpose of organizing a theoretical basis about the history of Umbanda. The research corpus is organized in order to enable a content analysis, being also carried out a verification of variations and modulations in the time of the records, associated to the entry: Umbanda, in the researched newspapers. Negrão (1996) e Ortiz (1999) focus, from the anthropological point of view, the notion of religion. Their theories make up the theoretical foundation of our studies. Journalistic analyses are guided by the Social Theory of Discourse, from the perspective of Critical Discourse Analysis, where both discourse and society are related. According to Fairclough (2001), discursive practice is a form of social practice. The discourse can corroborate the values of society, but can also bring a critical vision, causing changes in society itself. Social identities are constituted in discourse and the relation between them is based on the hegemony of power, where knowledge of the world and beliefs are fused.