Percepções e práticas relativas ao marido espiritual nas famílias num contexto urbano de Maputo

Abstract

The present work deals with the perceptions, motivations, forms of manifestation and implications of the “spiritual husband” phenomenon in the urban context of Maputo. The interest in subject part of a restlessness in practical life resulting from familiarity with some family experiences of living with the spiritual husband. The work followed a qualitative methodological approach, where in addition to the research bibliographic data were collected using the technique of unstructured interviews as way of having information about the lives of women who consider themselves possessed by the “husband spiritual". Although the phenomenon "spiritual husband" has different meanings, interpretations converge in the fact that it is a spirit that appears in dreams to have sexual relations with women as if they were their wives. The “pacts”, the indebtedness, the inheritance of the patronymic are elements that were considered to be the origin of the spouse spiritual. However, this phenomenon has its consequences, as is the case of sterility, marital instability, sexual impotence and even death of the spouse. Faced with empirical data and theoretical interpretations, it was found that the existence of spirits in life of individuals gives rise to a new way of being in Mozambican society. This new In this way, it produces a set of social relationships that, in turn, give meaning to their lives. (TRADUÇÃO NOSSA)