Social representation of spiritual surgeries in Umbanda: culture, religion and contributions of nursing theory.

Objective: to analyze the social representation of spiritual surgeries in Umbanda for Bantu-Amerindian ritual mediums and their contributions to the cross-cultural care proposed by Madeleine Leininger.

Methods: a descriptive-exploratory, qualitative study, supported by the procedural approach of Social Representation Theory and Transcultural Nursing Theory, carried out with 30 Umbanda mediums of the Bantu-Amerindian ritual through interviews, submitted to the Iramuteq software for lexical analysis.

Results: mostly women, white, with an average of 46 years old and approximately 14 years of practice in Umbanda participated.