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This paper investigates the transnationalization of Candomblé in Europe by analyzing the relations between members of the same religious lineage that live in Brazil, Italy and Portugal. Using the concept of transnational social field, it aims to highlight the circulation and direction of the flows of material and symbolic goods between these countries to reveal dynamics and strategies of.’ its members. Afterwards, it discusses the perceptions between members of different nationalities, in order to understand the ways in which these members build differences and similarities between them.

This paper analyzes the shared insertion of Umbanda and Capoeira practices in Portuguese territory, based on an ethnography performed in a Umbanda temple and a Capoeira group in northern Portugal. This study also investigates how this demograph and their leaders applied common strategies of fixation in Portuguese society and benefited from common conjunctural and historical factors in their transnationalization processes. In an attempt to understand the unfolding of these phenomena, we utilize the concepts of counter-colonization and Afro-Lusophone circular spaces.

This paper analyzes how the Life Reform movement collaborated in the construction of a certain spirituality and in new ways of thinking the individual, which forged the socio-cultural elements of receptivity to Afro-Brazilian religions not only in Germany, but also in a large part of Europe, while also resulting in problems to religious transnationalization, wherein vegan practices and other ways of dealing with the religious construction of the European individual under great influence of spiritualist practices and the so-called new era reappeared.

This paper focuses on the relationship between food practices, preparation of Candomblé ritual offerings and performance of rituals in a transnational case study. My interest here is to consider two ethnographic accounts of Candomblé rituals in Italy and Brazil. I will analyze how Italian practitioners perceive different aspects of the preparation of ritual offerings and what values are at stake in the cooking and consumption of food and food offerings. I will show how memory and the senses are essential to build a new idea of familiarity and to learn new skills within the ritual practice.

This paper shows how different classifications are triggered by the state agents operating in the Jury Court and their effect on victims and defendants, producing hierarchical structures over their cases as well as their respective mourned victims’ deaths, which affect their conception about humans. By describing two cases observed in fieldwork performed over a year and a half, the way these classifications intersect is demonstrated, assigning different moral values to the people involved in the cases and bringing out different solutions, while agents interact between themselves and each party.

The transnationalization of Candomblé to Portugal represents a strong process of religious reconfiguration that has been a matter of discussion in the anthropological literature. Despite the existence of a Candomblé reconfiguration amid its adoption in Portugal that demonstrates Candomblé’s foundational plasticity and the need of reconfiguration in a new social and cultural environment, this paper stresses the sociological phenomenon of conflict between local practitioners, presenting it as a structural element of the Portuguese Candomblé religiosity, which invokes the existence of constructing and reconstructing alliances based on the criteria of nationality, sexuality, and religious market demands.