Umbanda: intangible cultural heritage of the City of Rio de Janeiro - History teaching, teacher training and combating religious racism.
history, history teaching, curriculum, teacher education, racism, religious racism, antiracist education, umbanda, candomblé.
This dissertation is the result of bibliographic and documentary research carried out within the scope of the Graduate Program in History Teaching at the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro in order to answer two questions: what is the origin of all prejudice, discrimination, disrespect, hatred and violence against Umbanda and other religions of African origin? What can we do to contribute to an end to all prejudice, discrimination, hatred and violence against Umbanda and other religions of African origin? The answer obtained in relation to the first question is that, for many scholars and researchers, all this prejudice, discrimination, intolerance and other forms of violence against the different religions of African origin would be the result of the intensification of what has been called by priests and followers of African-based religions such as “religious racism”. With regard to the second question, our proposal is to disseminate knowledge and information about African-based religions and the application of anti-racist education for children and adolescents in all stages of basic education. To this end, we offer readers “a brief history of racism in Brazil”, a discussion on the History curriculum and continuing teacher education, as well as a presentation of the history and characteristics of Umbanda, highlighting Calundu, Candomblé and Macumba, as well as aspects of Kardecism, in the historicalcultural process of formation of religion. We disclose as an attached pedagogical device a proposal for a continuing education course on African-based religions 6 for teachers who are dedicated to teaching History (graduates in Pedagogy and graduates in History) in Basic Education.