Territorialidade religiosa e a representação imagética a partir da concepção dos devotos na cidade de Mata Grande - AL

Abstract

This geo-ethnographic study focuses on analyzing religious territoriality and the image representation from the conception of devotees in the city of Mata Grande-AL. The general objective of this research is to identify the image representation that symbolizes the city ​​of Mata Grande-AL and reveal the choice of devotees among the Mother Church of Our Lady of Conception and the Teresian Shrine. Religious territory is constantly used by the devotee to express the various acts of faith and the building of religious temples supports religion in a community. The phenomenological methodology used in this This paper seeks evidence to clarify the emergence of a given phenomenon; being Thus, the construction of this research consists of the use of theories from bibliographic sources and documentary. The main authors used in the bibliographic surveys that guided the study were Carvalho (2016), Claval (2010), Corrêa (2011), Diégues Júnior (2012), Herculaneum and Saints (2011), Rosendahl (2013), Tuan (2012) and Verçosa (2006). The questions used in the research questionnaire were elaborated with the intention of obtaining a notion of the conception of the devotees in relation to the analyzed religious phenomenon. In addition, the text was built in six chapters, according to the objectives, and structured using theoretical-conceptual assumptions of authors of cultural geography and the geography of religion. The geo historiographical profile of the religious territoriality of Mata Grande- For a better understanding of the formation of this religious territory, authors' concepts that address the theme of territoriality, religion, place. It was made a survey at the feast of Our Lady of Conception (2018) and at the feast of Santa Teresinha (2019), in the city of Mata Grande-AL. Thus, through the data obtained by the questionnaire, the answers were related to obtaining the information, which provided the construction of graphs and tables; the results showed that the Teresian devotees and Marians choose the image that represents for themselves the city of Mata Grande-AL.