Is it Easy Being Plural"? An Analysis of the Last Meetings of New Consciousness in Campina Grande-PB

Authors

  • Dilaine Soares Sampaio Universidade Federal da Paraíba
  • Genaro Camboim L. A. Lula Departamento de Ciência da Religião da Universidade do Estado do Rio Grande do Norte.

Keywords:

Meeting of the New Consciousness, New Age, plurality, anti-plurality, political dimension.

Abstract

The Meeting of the New Consciousness (ENC), in Campina Grande, the second largest city in the state of Paraíba, occurs for 25 years now and has been the subject of some academic work. Since 2004, it began to be sheltered by the New Consciousness Organization, a non-profit organization. Currently one can observe difficulties due to religious disputes in its headquarters, especially during the time of Carnival. In the face of these occurrences, we take as a starting point the question present in the title: It's easy to be plural? Or rather, it is easy to be plural even in the (post) modern times? How the new ways of dealing with spirituality affect the hegemonic religious traditions? Do the movements and initiatives that dialogue with the New Age occupy the same space in the same way they did in the 1980s and 1990s? From an anthropological perspective, within the scientific Study of Religions, we approach these issues in reference to our ethnography during the New Consciousness Meetings.

Author Biographies

Dilaine Soares Sampaio, Universidade Federal da Paraíba

Doutora em Ciência da Religião pela Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora. Professora Adjunta do Departamento de Ciências das Religiões e do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências das Religiões da Universidade Federal da Paraíba.

Genaro Camboim L. A. Lula, Departamento de Ciência da Religião da Universidade do Estado do Rio Grande do Norte.

Doutorando em Antropologia no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Antropologia - PPGA da Universidade Federal de Pernambuco - UFPE. Professor adjunto I do Departamento de Ciência da Religião da Universidade do Estado do Rio Grande do Nor

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Published

2016-12-25

Issue

Vol. 16 No. 3 (2016): Nova Era: transformações e ressignificações de uma nova espiritualidade

Section

Seção Temática

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