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Evidence of Abortion Attitude Flexibility during COVID-19 in Pernambuco, Brazil. [PDF]
Stud Fam PlannAbstract This study examines changes in women's attitudes toward abortion in Brazil during the first year of the COVID‐19 pandemic, focusing on the role of religious affiliation. Brazil provides a unique context for examining abortion attitudes because of its strict abortion policies, changing religious landscape, and back‐to‐back Zika and COVID‐19 ...
Whitfield B, Coutinho RZ, Marteleto L.
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A Community‐Engaged Approach to Recruit the Brazilian Population in the US: Initial Lessons from the BRAINY‐NJ Study (Brazilian Aging in New York ‐ New Jersey Study) [PDF]
Alzheimers DementAbstract Background The Brazilian population in the US is growing and aging but remains underrepresented in US health research. In addition to group‐specific genetic and environmental risks, the Brazilian immigrant population in the US likely presents risks for health inequities due to limited healthcare access/utilization and immigration‐related ...
Staniscia A +7 more
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The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 28, Issue 2, Page 141-150, June 2023., 2023 Abstract Based on ethnographic work conducted between 2015 and 2022 at the periphery of Fortaleza, in Northeast Brazil, this article analyzes the work of community activists as a form of subversive care. Women activists, many of whom work for the local public clinics, as social workers with local NGOs, or as schoolteachers, challenge dominant ...
Luminiţa‐Anda Mandache
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A Review of Infectious Diseases Associated with Religious and Nonreligious Rituals
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Infectious Diseases, Volume 2021, Issue 1, 2021., 2021 Rituals are an integral part of human life but a wide range of rituals (both religious and non‐religious), from self‐flagellation to blood brotherhood to ritual sprinkling of holy water, have been associated with transmission of infections. These infections include angiostrongyliasis, anthrax, brucellosis, cholera, COVID‐19, cutaneous larva migrans ...
Kiran Gajurel +2 more
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Pesquisas e relatos das culturas infantis na Umbanda e Candomblé: 2014 a 2016
Revista Calundu, 2018 O artigo apresenta questões de como a infância é vista e cuidada nas Religiões Umbanda e Candomblé. O objetivo é evidenciar a posição da infância como categoria geracional, nas Religiões da Umbanda e Candomblé e refletir sobre as culturas infantis ...
Catia Regina Gutman
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Ritual Theory and Attitudes to Agency in Brazilian Spirit Possession [PDF]
, 2009 This is the post-refereed, pre-print version: "The institute employing the author may post the post-refereed, but pre-print version of that article free of charge on its website.
Engler, Steven
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Mediações: Revista de Ciências Sociais, 2006 This is a study about an Umbanda center in Rio de Janeiro, where a union with the Santo Daime religion takes place. This Umbanda center presents some peculiar characteristics, which, in a way, prove the common point of view about Umbanda as a syncretic ...
Maria Beatriz Lisboa Guimarães
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Desobediencia epistémica : contra-hegemonías de una religión antropofágica. Una mirada etnográfica [PDF]
, 2011 Este trabajo se propone reflexionar sobre la construcción del "ser" en las religiones "afro-brasileñas" en Portugal, a partir de la inversión simbólica de la subalternidad de grupos en la sociedad y/o en contextos de 'sufrimiento' individual, cuya ...
Flávio Ferreira, J.
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Revista Espaço Acadêmico, 2021 Este artigo se propõe à tarefa de compreender as forjas históricas que formam os territórios religiosos das Umbandas, refletindo sobre os diálogos étnicos e culturais que se desdobram na formação do campo Umbandístico. A paisagem dos manifestos religiosos do século XVI ao século XX é o espectro que delineia resistências e cooperações, forjando uma ...
Adilson Meneses da Paz +1 more
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Jornal de Umbanda: em defesa das “boas” práticas religiosas.
Em Tempo de Histórias, 2017 O presente artigo trata da Umbanda no Rio de Janeiro ”“ Brasil, na década de 1950, a partir de fontes jornalísticas que apresentam uma construção de discurso de superioridade religiosa umbandista em detrimento das práticas candomblecistas, consideradas ...
Fabíola Amaral Tomé de Souza
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