Práticas espíritas diversificadas : variações de conduta dentro de uma mesma doutrina institucional

Abstract

This work explain the practices inside of Spirit Centers in the cities of Recife, Olinda, Paulista and Jaboatão dos Guararapes, focusing doctrine organized by Allan Kardec. The research was conducted with the aim of analyzing the reports of leaders of the Spirit Centers on how to perform doctrinal practices, seeking to interpret, understand and explain these phenomena and their causes, paying attention to the subjectivity and its representations. For this purpose, a qualitative methodology was used to obtain the best possible results. As a research tool was chosen for observation on 11 spiritual centers, and interviews and questionnaires with its 19 leaders. The collected data were categorized and analyzed based on the theoretical foundations of the Sociology of Religion, Anthropology, Spirit Pedagogy and the precepts of spiritual doctrine, codified by Allan Kardec. The study made it possible to see that, inside of "The Spiritism's Universe", there are differences among the practice of the doctrine based on the cultural inheritance, in other words, the symbols and myths ingrained in society and transmitted through time, resulting in a resistance to new behaviors, which directly influences the Spiritism practices. Thus the "reason" for the variation in the diversity of practice is related to the level of knowledge of doctrine, by its practitioners