EDIFICANDO UM CONGÁ PARA A MEMÓRIA JOINVILENSE: AS RELIGIÕES MEDIÚNICAS PRESENTES NA GESTÃO DA MEMÓRIA DE UMA CIDADE

This paper exposes problematizations about the ( in) visibility of Umbanda in Joinville and religious plurality in this city . From the second half of the twentieth century stands in Joinville a concern to preserve the city's past, keeping the documents, and the building guard spaces for the city's memory. The desire to preserve the past, there is a movement in selectivity operation and in the midst of this investment lie actions combine , add and subtract what should and deserves to be saved. Thus, to investigate the composition and dynamics of the religious field in Joinville we face an exercise framework and curtailment of mediumistic religions residing amid the memory preservation concerns of a city that celebrates its German pioneer.