“What’s mine belongs to gypsy!”: Transvestite religiosity in digital curimba contexts

Abstract

This article interprets consumer practices of digital technologies, especially of Facebook, in the formation of religious experiences of Afro-Brazilian matrix. Based on an ethnography for the Internet (HINE, 2015) with transvestites in the city of Santa Maria, Brazil, the paper discuss some intersections between religion, technology and transsexuality. The work points out that the secrets of curimba, produced in the itineraries of faith, intersect in these practices with the other elements that constitute the interlocutors’ social life. In addition, it points out how the regimes of digital sociability conduct and interpret the senses of the ilê religiosity.