O Terreiro além-muros, floresta adentro: deslocamentos e adaptações de Terreiros, o caso do Parque Ecológico dos Orixás

Abstract

The purpose of this thesis is discuss the link between religion and space in the context of Candomblé. Considering the fact that these spaces are multiples, such as “terreiros” (meeting points) or outside spaces. Candomblé is a religion inherited from the African diaspora. it is necessary to explain and describe how “Candomblé” built your space as a territory in the new continent and also turned into a mythical, religious, resistant and ancestral space. This thesis will explain the history of Candomblé as a religion derived from the ritual ceremony to the “Orixás” realized in Africa, and that in Brazil it received its own characteristics. We will discuss the first movements as “Calundu” (XVII century), then the private rituals in slave quarters and finally its structuring when it becomes a public ritual (XIX century) in cities (city center and periphery). From that point, this thesis analyses the displacements and adaptations of “Candomblé” to new ritual spaces, as for example, the “Parque Ecológico dos Orixás” (PEO) in Magé, Rio de Janeiro. This space was created as an institutional reaction against oppression and repression, trying to solve demands for spaces of expression so needed for the “Terreiros”.