A “intimidade eficaz” e a construção de mundos corporificados através de práticas religiosas

Autores

  • Urmila Mohan Founder and Editor, The Jugaad Project

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.23925/1677-1222.2024vol24i3a10

Palavras-chave:

Corporeidade, Corpóreo-e-material, Prática religiosa, Eficácia, Hinduísmo, Umbanda

Resumo

Este artigo foi escrito a partir de uma perspectiva antropológica que enfatiza a produção e o movimento nos estudos da cultura material como formas de compreender os aspectos sociais e corporificados das religiões. Ele resume aspectos-chave da estrutura de 'intimidade eficaz' desenvolvida pelo autor ao longo da última década, ligando o corpóreo-e-material ao sujeito, ao objeto e aos processos, afetos e efeitos da criação dos mundos religiosos, e enfatiza a relevância de tais ideias para o estudo interdisciplinar da Religião Material. A autora baseia-se extensivamente nas suas publicações e colaborações anteriores para traçar o desenvolvimento das suas ideias, desde o trabalho de campo etnográfico sobre a devoção hindu na Índia até à criação de uma plataforma digital global, dedicada à inovação nos estudos da Religião Material. Além disso, relaciona comparativamente as práticas de crenças do Brasil, da Indonésia e dos EUA apresentando-as em contextos de descolonização, herança e cuidado, sugerindo outras possíveis aplicações do conceito de intimidade eficaz no futuro. Este artigo defende uma teorização mais rigorosa e diversificada da corporeidade na Religião Material que considere o contexto, as interpretações e a inclusão das posições dos estudiosos em relação a seus objetos de estudo.

 

Biografia do Autor

Urmila Mohan, Founder and Editor, The Jugaad Project

Urmila Mohan, Ph.D., University College London (UCL), is a leading public-facing anthropologist of material culture with a focus on textiles and religion/belief. Dr. Mohan founded the digital, open-access platform The Jugaad Project in 2019 to enhance the anthropology of material culture and embodiment via belief practices, and is a member of the Matière à Penser network for bodily-and-material studies. She is a 2024-25 Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellow, taught museum anthropology at New York University, and is Honorary Research Fellow, Dept. of Anthropology, UCL. She earned an MFA in Studio Art (Penn. State Univ., 2009), a BA Hons in Anthropology (Victoria Univ. of Wellington, 2000), and a BFA in Communication Design (National Institute of Design, 1998). Dr. Mohan’s research is/has been supported by Asian Cultural Council of New York, Nehru Trust for the Indian Collections at the V&A, the Rotary Foundation, and the Fulbright Program.

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2025-03-15

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v. 24 n. 3 (2024): Religião Material

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