Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: PAULA DOS REIS MOITA

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : PAULA DOS REIS MOITA
DATE: 18/12/2025
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: Canal do Legesex no Youtube
TITLE:

EPISTEMOLOGICAL SHAKE-UPS AND SPIRITUAL WORKS TO DISPATCH SILENCING AND PREJUDICE: GENDER, EDUCATION, AND RELIGION IN THE UMBANDA TERREIRO IN DEBATE

KEY WORDS:

Cisheteronormativity, Masculinities, Gender relations, Umbanda Terreiro, Education.

PAGES: 62
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Educação
SUMMARY:

The present dissertation investigates how gender relations, sexualities, and masculinities are produced, reproduced, and contested in society, and how these dynamics are reflected in the daily life of Umbanda Terreiros. It also reaffirms these spaces as contexts of non-formal education. Its main objective is to analyze gender relations, sexualities, religion, and non-formal education from the perspective of the Umbanda Terreiro, seeking to specifically examine how issues and demands related to masculinities are addressed and how cisheteronormativity influences this process. The study adopts a decolonial and Afro-diasporic epistemological perspective. It is grounded in the researcher’s experiences as a Mãe de Santo (spiritual leader) in an Umbanda Terreiro located in a peripheral neighborhood in the North Zone of Rio de Janeiro, in order to examine practices, discourses, and dynamics that shape processes of silencing, exclusion, or inclusion of gender identities and sexualities within these spaces.The main theoretical frameworks draw on the works of Foucault, Joyce Alves, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Lélia Gonzalez, Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí, Aníbal Quijano, and Rogério Junqueira, concerning aspects of domination and the erasure of bodies and alternative epistemologies within discussions of gender, masculinities, identities, and gender relations. Marta Ferreira, Luiz Simas, and Luiz Rufino are referenced in studies on the relationship between Terreiro daily life and education, exploring intersections of power, the body, normativity, and ancestry. The research privileges an ancestral methodology that permeates and constitutes its entire trajectory, affirming orality, communitarianism, circularity, and spirituality as legitimate components of knowledge production. Based on self-narratives and a case-study approach, it employs open and semi-structured interviews, participant observation, and a literature review to generate evidence.

The fieldwork encompasses four Terreiros in the peripheral North Zone of Rio de Janeiro, with attention to intersectional markers of gender, race, class, and sexualities. The state of the art reveals the absence of studies that directly connect Umbanda, masculinities, and education, underscoring the originality and necessity of this research. The dissertation proposes a critical analysis of tensions between Umbanda’s inclusive philosophy and practices that reproduce colonial and patriarchal logics. Ultimately, it seeks to contribute to the consolidation of Afro-Brazilian epistemologies within the field of education and to the expansion of practices more closely aligned with principles of equity, plurality, and social justice.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1742750 - JOYCE ALVES DA SILVA
Externo à Instituição - Osmar Soares da Silva Filho - CPII
Externa à Instituição - SANDRA REGINA DE OLIVEIRA FAUSTINO - SME