Territórios Religiosos: etnogeografia da Casa Omolocô - Dourados/MS

Abstract

The Umbanda Omolocô is the result of the mixture of Candomblé and Umbanda. Admitting candomblecist rituals, umbandistas and working with spirits. The afrobrazilian Meeting House Omolocô ethnicity, presented territory, unites this mixture of beliefs and religions. The purpose of this work is to describe and explain the particularities of the terreiro, the Umbanda Omolocô, the religious spaces, the symbolic objects, the spatiality of the tours, the way the saint's father conducts the tour and deals with the mediums, amount of mediums. The ethnogeographic work analysis method is based on the description of this territory, from the social and spatial relations. Allied to participant observation, a tool that makes it possible to see, hear and write to third parties. Knowing that the afro-brazilian meetings house Omolocô ethnicity have similarities and particularities compared to the afro-brazilian religions. It is necessary to present, describe and explain this territory in its dynamics and particularities. In order to demonstrate that the terreiro besides religious space is also a space of social interaction and through this space people talk, see acquaintances, participate in festivals of orixás, ask for advice, dialog with the entities and, very expressively, construct a social group space. In this way, the terreiro establishes itself as a religious, affective, social and familiar territory.