Ecologia da Comunicação na religiosidade: um estudo sobre os processos comunicacionais na Tenda Espírita Nossa Senhora da Piedade

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This study aims to understand the religious experience from the perspective of the ecology of communication proposed by Vicente Romano. The research takes as corpus the communicational aspects present in the religious experiences of the Tenda Espírita Nossa Senhora da Piedade (Spiritist Tent Our Lady of Mercy), hereinafter referred to as TENSP, considered the first Umbanda tent in Brazil. The central objective of the research is based on the question: what communicational processes do religious practices of TENSP demonstrate? The research covered two methodological paths. The first course is bibliographical, supported by the reflections of: Rudolf Otto (2007), Mircea Eliade (1992), Carl Gustav Jung (1985; 2013), Joseph Campbell (1990; 1994); Aldo Natele Terrin (2004), Max Weber (2004; 1970), Muniz Sodré (2013), Luís Mauro Martino (2016), Alberto Klein (2006), Jorge Miklos (2012), Norval Baitello Jr. (1998; 2005), Harry Pross (1972), Vicente Romano (2004), among others. The second consisted of non-participatory observation, which considered religious rites without any interference in situations. The results demonstrate that in the TENSP the religious practices of the congregation are marked by the presence rites that share the present time and the physical space, that is, they approach the suggestion of Vicente Romano in the work Ecología de la Comunicación (2004), in which the primary communication process is fruitful to promote communicative and religious bonds.