A música nos rituais de cura do Santo Daime

Abstract

This paper describes and analyzes the music practical in the rituals of cure of the Santo Daime pointing the relevance of these rituals while practical religious in this context. The ceremonies carried through in the church Céu da Mãe Divina, located in km 6 of the road of the Taiassuí, city of Benevides, area metropolitan of Belém of Pará, serve of reflection and analysis for this research. In the cure rituals, musical and religious relation, the religious thought if shows capable to determine the stages of the musical conception since the reception, transmission until the execution of the book of hymns. The diverse aspects of the music practical, that if presents in the form of knowledge and religious bedding, are analyzed here to the light of the ethnomusicology.