Umbanda, the deification of the excluded

Abstract

The cultural complex is the historical-symbolic set that presents the subjective contents active in the life and culture of a people, based on the analysis of Carl Gustav Jung's analytical psychology. In the Brazilian case, these symbolic and religious movements
gave rise to the Umbanda religion, which has roots in the hybridism of indigenous, popular Catholic, African and Kardecist religions, building a pantheon of representative entities of the history of oppression and exclusion of various groups in the constitution of Brazil. Indigenous people expropriated from their lands, enslaved Africans, refugee immigrants and marginalized people from urban centers made up in Umbanda a pantheon of deified and worshiped entities to whom people turn to solve the most diverse problems. From excluded to deified, these groups show, in umbanda, psychosocial processes of psycho-cultural compensation, similar to the compensatory process in the individual psyche from the perspective of analytical psychology.