A jurema, o culto e a missa: disputas pela identidade religiosa em Alhandra-PB (1980-2010).

Abstract

The city of Alhandra became known as the "city jurema", this fame is mainly because in the city was strong the cult of jurema, and many inhabitants of the municipality became known as famous teachers juremeiros, which were responsible for ritual of healing the body, soul and any misfortune that people would, through the jurema, this tree would be licensed in spirits magicians that flowed down to earth through the teachers to solve the problems of the living. Places of achievement of these rituals in Alhandra were known as cities of jurema, in the 1970s, were mapped 10 cities of jurema in the municipality. However since the end of 1970 shows a growing silencing of jurema in the city, which is to be rejected. The search develops in the search to understand the historical process more recent which caused a discontinuity in the worship of jurema, making the alhandrenses not more than willing be perceived identity juremeiros and/or catimbozeiros. Understanding the religion as a system of symbols culturally constructed by the companies, research is theoretical knowledge valley of History Anthropological, but the main source of the present study are the memories of the inhabitants of Alhandra they narrate their religious experience. Alhandra then is nowadays has identity conflict. Alhandra, after all is the "city of jurema" or "city of Jesus Christ"?