O médium espírita e a fenomenologia da experiência mediúnica a partir do diálogo entre ciência da religião e ciências sociais

Abstract

For the mediums, the mediumship phenomena conjuncture an immaterial dimension, intangible, ephemeral, subjective and particular, which is built and meant in the material plane of the objective reality of everyday life. Such manifestations communicate symbolic codes expressed by an extremely rich sociocultural language in its semantic ways. I start from the hyphotesis that a language supposedly transmitted by the spiritual doctrine is one of the main reasons why many subjects justify their adherence to the body of beliefs, values and moral principles based on the codifications made by Allan Kardec. And therefore, they feel identified with such shared worldview, which basically foresees the possibility of life beyond death, a continuity to the spirit’s path through reincarnation and the communication with the spirits of the dead. The Spiritualist religion as any other religion is able to assess behavioral guidelines responsible for guiding the conduct of the individual in its daily life, providing senses and meanings imbued with the construction of the reality of the subjects. For an analytical framework of mediumism manifestation, I resort to the discourse constructed by my interlocutors – the spiritual mediums - about the religious experience of mediumship. I consider important the question: what this mediumship experience means to them? This research aims to discuss the possible meanings developed around the mediumship practices in the Spiritualist religion, taken from the reports, experiences and living memories of Kardecists mediums from the city of Juiz de Fora – MG. To this end, I engage a qualitative research, prepared based on an ethnography which was developed in Kardecists spiritual centers of the city, linked to the documentary and literature analysis about the spiritualist mysticism.