%0 Journal Article
%T New Age Umbanda: Axé and Energy in the Context of the Religious Transformations
%A Oliveira, Amurabi
%A Boin, Felipe
%J Studia Religiologica
%V 2018
%R 10.4467/20844077SR.18.016.10100
%N Volume 51, Issue 4
%P 219-231
%K Umbanda, New Age, New Religious Movements
%@ 0137-2432
%D 2018
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studia-religiologica/article/new-age-umbanda-axe-and-energy-in-the-context-of-the-religious-transformations
%X 
	The transformations in Afro-Brazilian religions have been the central focus of extensive literature in the fields of anthropology and sociology of religion, emphasizing both ritualistic and liturgical changes, as well as in terms of the public. In this work we analyze the phenomenon of the incorporation of elements of New Age in some Umbanda temples in the city of Florianópolis (Brazil), analyzing how this process occurs and what it reveals to us in terms of the transformations of Afro-Brazilian religions. The research demonstrates that this articulation occurs mainly with the use of alternative therapies in Umbanda temples and the substitution of some aspects of Afro-Brazilian religions, such as ritual animal sacrifice, with new elements.