“Àbúrò N’ilê” - O irmão mais novo da casa: a formação histórica do movimento social Juventude de Terreiro em Alagoas (2012 – 2017)

Abstract

Over the last decades, many of the studies about afro-brazilian religions in Alagoas have been constituted from renewed and interdisciplinary approaches, articulating concepts and methodologies and taking as a major point of discussion the historical experience that became known as Quebra de Xangô in 1912, one of the greatest repressions against religions of African origin until then known. The Social History of Religions has been a domain of investigation capable of inaugurating concepts about the History of Religions. Such importance and support of the field have established characteristics, forms of interpretations, theories, methodologies and an epistemic maturation of its conceptual propositions. However, there are still many subjects, processes, cultural and social experiences to be deciphered by this field. This dissertation seeks to investigate, problematize and analyze the paths taken by afro-alagoanos movements – identified here as individual and collective actions that seek to value, reflect and claim political and social aspects of black culture – in the present century, starting from the historical experience of the Terrace Youth in Alagoas called ―Àbúró N'ilê- Terrace Youth Network‖. The terrace youth collective is a network structured in 2014 that articulates and realizes his activities in different spaces (terraces, centers and public squares) in the city of Maceió. The articulation proposed by the movement, its charter of principles and its performance propose and express its forms of organization. The theoretical categories lend to this work the propositions for an understanding of the social reality in which it seeks to historicize the performance of this movement, focusing on his ethnic and religious discourses, understanding that historical experiences enable the understanding of social representations and (re) construction of collective and individual identities as relevant contributions to the social study of Religions and Religiosity, based on the techniques and methods of Oral History and digital sources. Through this analysis, it is understood that the study of these political-religious manifestations and their importance for the construction of a narrative for non-silences is essential, still on the impacts of the repressions experienced by Afro-Brazilian religions in Alagoas.