Psicosfera da territorialidade sagrada do Cariri Cearense: narrativas do fenômeno místico das benzas

Abstract

The sacred territories, present in the regional scenario of Cariri Cearense (southern Ceará- Brazil), allow an investigation from a psychosphere (Santos, 2006) as a phenomenon sociospatial, associating materiality and subjectivity at the root of the symbology of the realimaginary. Especially the mystical practices of prayers and blessings, marking the regional religious syncretism and the design of its territoriality. In this study, the re-elaboration of the psychosphere's field in sacred territoriality constitutes interconnections and interdependencies, whose construction evokes the mediation of the healers of Cariri. Such mediation takes place in a specific regional context of social challenges, marginality, health crisis etc. In addition to social relations with space, psychological perspectives dressed up in concepts of faith, sacrifices and rituals within a devotional culture that dynamizes the place. From this perspective, we seek in geoeducational processes that corroborate the growth and development of the territory, either through technical means such as investments in infrastructure, or through socio-emotional ways, resulting from the sacralization of symbols in a universe of popular religiosity. Thus, the objective of the research is to analyze and interpret the psychofera of sacred territoriality in Cariri Cearense to better explain the psychosocial phenomena that mobilize and dynamize the territories of this region, as happens the structuring and / or organization of these different places. We seek in phenomenological and ethnographic approaches, concepts that can contribute to qualitative research aimed at understanding the dynamics of elements placed in territories, especially cultural and social. After characterizing the cities of Cariri, contextualized in a sacred territory, actions are proposed as a form of intervention during (re) reading the spaces, according to a geoeducational look that permeates the blessings as a protagonist element of the phenomena present in the sacred territory of Cariri cearense.