O retorno dos ancestrais: Bon Odori e ritos mortuários no Templo Budista Honpa Honganji em Londrina.

Bon Odori is a mortuary rite related to Japanese Buddhism that, held during the "Festival of the Deceased", aims to allow the beings to transmigrate to different dimensions of Buddhist spheres. This paper intends to analyze the ritual connected to the Honpa Honganji Buddhist temple, located in Londrina (Paraná). As methodology, participant observations of Bon Odori were made in 2014 and interviews with the local Buddhist monk. From theoretical perspective, it is used the concepts of religious field and appropriation, suggested, respectively, by Pierre Bourdieu and Roger Chartier. From this, it is suggested that, although it is a mortuary rite, elements of "profane" universe, as well as distinct social actors, have been associated with Bon Odori. This change would be created by the need of this Buddhism, which remains in Brazil an ethnic religion, to develop strategies of proselytism that enable it to acquire new faithful, including outside the circle of Japanese immigrants and descendants, to its social reproduction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]