As religiões afro-ameríndias nas espacialidades da cidade: delineações de fronteiras em Campina Grande-PB.

Abstract

Campina Grande-P stands today as a city of great religious ferment resulting from pratices and (re)elaborations of its population. Thus, the city is filled eith various religious temples, and the yards the focus or our work, as in the minutia of these places of worship we find a plural universe marked by several african-amerindian religiousness, which practitioners have two lines of services that coexist in the same liturgical space, and a line of Mimosa and other line of the orisha. They were imposed on those from the cration of the Federation of Afro-Brazilian cults in Paraíba which legalized the practice of Umbanda in our state in the mid-1960s.Consequently, entities (eguns) and deities (orishas) had to share the same religious space, which now require the availability of specific rooms for both, resulting in a broader configuracion of these. Thus, what once constituted as “tables catimbo” just today presents itself as a universe full of colors and various rites. Therefore, we see a massive presence of these religious spaces in areas that until the 1960s were considered rural and still have rock features, which led us to list the factor for this, including his approach to the natural environment, considering the African-ameridian religions have inherited both his reminiscences of pagan forms of religiosity as indigenous African and European magical, the need for large tracts of land for the construction of terraces and the acquisition of a low cost, among others. Thus, we infer that the religious community as a religious space is typically rural to the urban environmente, because of its practices and elements that contradict the logic urbanizing, somehow breaking the boundaries between these two areas related to the city. What led us to consider the yard as a “practicedplace” ehere the plurality and mutability are present through the “art of doing” of/ as his/ her visitors/ those that transform the liturgical space not only in one place where we find ways of healing and solutions for evereday problems, but the air is not idyllic in urban centers. At the same time, they build an “other space” where live/ religious entities and the deities.