Geografia literária de Canindé: a religiosidade na literatura de cordel

Abstract

This research aims to study a literary geography on the religiosity of the city of Canindé - CE. Focused on issues of popular religiosity exposed in cordel literature works, based on a literary approach aimed at studying a geography of religion in the city of Canindé. The objective of the developed research focuses on understanding the sacred spaces of Canindé through cordel literature, seeking to relate the socio-spatial dynamics of the city with the popular religiosity highlighted in the pamphlets through narratives that deal with religious the messuch as the life of San Francisco das Chagas, the pilgrimages and the miraculous manifestations that make up the imagination of the pilgrims and the faithful, having as main purpose to high light the possibility of building a study on the religiosity of Canindé through the literary approach of cordel literature. The research was developed in a descriptive character, with a bibliographic nature, in search of cordel literature pamphlets that deal with the city of Canindé and its religious character, without making a delimitation as to the poet's birth place or the period of elaboration or circulation of the work. We can point out as research results the understanding of the relationship between popular religiosity and cordel literature and the understanding of the importance for the formation and promotion of religious practices carried out in the hieropolis of Canindé, considering that legends are portrayed through cordels on the foundation of the town of Canindé, miracles at tributed to the image of São Francisco das Chagas do Canindé and to religious practices such as pilgrimages and other promises that make up a list of popular manifestations that allow direct contact with the divine experience of the believer.