Religiões tradicionais de base africana no Cariri cearense: educação, filosofia e movimento social

Abstract

This research is a discussion about the black presence in the cities of Crato and Juazeiro and their traditional religious practices. Thus we aimed to understand the religion as a production locus of a philosophy and this, an educational act. He intended to also highlight the march for religious freedom as a social movement that aspires to act on the reality of the region. On the problems experienced by the black population in relation to history, culture, religion is what made us wake up to the following problem: as the black presence has performed in the region and how their religious spaces have been expressed and presented in the historical process with its symbolic and social relations settings? For this purpose we use as a methodology, the bibliographical studies; qualitative research; document analysis; oral history and oral tradition, through semi-structured interviews and use of digital recording equipment has been possible to collect the lines of social agents. The overall objective is to search for the historical bias, the black presence in the Cariri (Crato and Juazeiro), understanding of the African-based religious representation in analogy with philosophy, as well as analyze the walk for religious freedom as a movement social. We propose the following objectives: 1) To review studies on the region on the African history and the black population, its relation to Brazilian history and its religious representation in caririense society; 2) Investigate and make visible the black religious presence in the historical archives in the cities of Crato and Juazeiro do Norte; 3) Establish discussion analysis waging an analogy of African-based religion with philosophy; 4) To analyze the walk for religious freedom as a social movement space. Such assumptions made us realize that know the reality from history means understanding the social and historical organization of cities, ie what and how the sacred spaces contributed and the reason for non-participation in the social organization of the surveyed cities. The investigation of the role of religious communities and how they collaborated in the formation of local social realities is to note that the strength of the Afro-descendant population permeates other fields and other practices to resist the homogenization of the hegemonic culture. Therefore, the research concluded that the traditional religious practices of African-based religions and its historical-social constitution shows us a device to study when it comes to: transmission of teachings and resistance; of participation in the formation of the realities of the cities; and in enveredamento a philosophy.