Territórios religiosos no município de Cajazeiras-PB: um debate geográfico acerca de diferentes manifestações da fé

Abstract

At first glance, it would seem strange to say that Religion and Geography have an effective relationship that deserves further investigation. However, religiosity is a form of human expression present in the peoples culture since the beginnings of civilization, and it contributes to the configuration of space, by inserting itself in socio-spatial dynamics. From this parameter, the present monograph aims to investigate how territorialities are organised in a Spiritist Centre and an African Matrix Temple located in the town of Cajazeiras, Sertão of the state of Paraíba. The starting point of this study were the fundamentals of the subject Estágio Curricular Supervisionado em Geografia III, in October 2014. The project was concluded in February 2017, a 28-month period of duration. That time, reaearch methodology was focused in state of art and field research immersion. Literature review was carried out on the subjects of Territory, Religion, Identity and Spirituality, based on contributions of Bourdieu (2007), Eliade (2010), Raffestin (1993), Rosendahl (1995, 1996, 2014) and Saffioti (2001, 2013, 2015). The field research was carried from the cartography of the religious spaces along the Cajazeiras urban perimeter, to the ethnographic analysis of the selected space. The obtaining information from ethnography was carried out by semi-structured interviews and non-directive interviews (CHIZZOTTI, 2010), with the Directors of both selected religious spaces, as well as the observation of their rituals, followed by annotations in the research field book, and records of the research information about the subjects speeches. Our purpose was to understand different manifestations of spirituality, identity and hierarchy in the investigated sacred spaces, and we identify that these spaces are interconnected to the spiritual world, and guide the lives of their believers, by bonds of faith and power.