O protestantismo nas territorialidades e na identidade territorial da comunidade Quilombola Kalunga – Goiás

• Ano de defesa: 2016
• Autor(a) principal: Mota, Rosiane Dias
• Orientador(a): Almeida, Maria Geralda de
• Banca de defesa: Almeida, Maria Geralda de, D'Abadia, Maria Idelma Vieira, Rosendahl, Zeny, Chaveiro, Eguimar Felício, Maia, Carlos Eduardo Santos
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Goiás
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-graduação em Geografia (IESA)
• Departamento: Instituto de Estudos Socioambientais - IESA (RG)
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: Evangelismo; Comunidade tradicional; Conflitos culturais
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Evangelism; Traditional community; Cultural conflicts
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CIENCIAS HUMANAS::GEOGRAFIA
• Link de acesso: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/6324

The Kalunga Quilombo Community, located in the Historic and Heritage Site of the Kalunga SHPC, in the north and northeast regions of the state of Goias, Brazil, consists of a rural community. This is a community facing an undeveloped condition living on the margins of society which has its history and identity mostly described and reported by government agencies and by other institutions in general. Kalunga people usually used to have their way of life and territorial identity built from within based on a collective self-view and perceptions, permeated by different cultural practices associated with popular Catholicism. However, in recent decades this community has faced an evangelization process led by Protestant agents. Their actions initially sporadic became increasingly recurrent resulting in the opening of Protestant Churches within the limits of the Kalunga territory. By taking into account these factors and context, the main approach of this thesis is a critical reading of an expanding Protestantism over a traditional community; an analysis to be done within the perspective of the Geography. Issues addressed by this study are related to religious discourses, identity conflicts, the reinterpretation of cultural practices, among other things that involve the local culture and territorial identity of the Kalunga. It has as a general objective to analyze the influence of the Protestantism on the Kalunga Community with special attention given to the production of the sacredness of the Protestant space, as well as the reframing and the new meanings of the territorial identity and practices of converted Kalunga, and the cultural landscape as perceived by the Quilombo dwellers. The proposal is to investigate the new set territorial relations by under-positioned Kalunga after the incursions of the Protestant Church and the religious speeches made by the preachers, and the way the Quilombo discourse reframes the community territorial identities. As part of the study, it was chosen ‘space’, ‘territory’ and ‘landscape’ as categories. The methodology was split into method and methodological tools. The chosen method permeated the cultural geography in densifying spiritualist approach as presented by Andreotti (2002; 2003). Literature review and field research were the methodological tools. For assessing the data, it was used discourse analysis based on Orlandi (2005), Foucault (1986, 1996 and 1999), Fernandes (2005), and Possenti (2002). And as part of the procedures, it was offered insights on the relation between religion and the geographical categories: living space, territory, territoriality, territorial identities, and cultural landscape. A historical analysis on the spread of Christianity, including in Brazil, as well how this religion reached the traditional communities. A reading ofthe Kalunga way of life and on how the religious discourse propitiated a reinterpretation of its territorial practices and identities, as well as of its cultural landscapes is part of this investigation. This study was the identification ofnew forms of territorial relations established in the Kalunga site with the introduction and spread of Protestantism. The converted Kalunga feel themselves much closer to outsiders due to common religious bonds, to social benefits, and to spiritual aspects and experiences, and yet, conversely, in reason of conflicting ideas evolved from religious discourses, the converted Kalunga experienced blinking periods of strong and weak bonds with non-converted Kalunga. Yet, it was found that the Quilombo community converted to Protestantism has reframed the structures of its beliefs according to new dogmas and religious creeds as discursively conformed.