Europa “underground”: enverdecimento do ser, Reforma da Vida, bruxarias e outros modos de pensar o espiritual

Abstract

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.

Keywords

• greening of the self
• life reform
• spirituality
• afro-brazilian reli-gions
• religion transnationalization