Entre naturezas e territorialidades: um estudo de caso sobre processos de des-reterritorialização das religiões de terreiro na cidade de Juiz de Fora-MG

Abstract

This work aims to look through geography about how the religions of umbanda and candomblé specifically build their territoriality in the city of Juiz de Fora, in Minas Gerais. We are searching from that, to contribute to a project led by Feijão de Ogun Institute, that tries to ensure access to a public space in the city where the afrobrasilian religions can maintain your rituals in the “natural domains” of their deities, which we understand as a reterritorialization process, this way we are inserted in the field of participatory methodologies, in particular in participant observation and action research. Analyzing the data that we collect in fieldworks, interviews, meetings and seminars with groups engaged and not engaged in the mentioned project, some questions are more relevant: the meaning of nature to umbanda and candomblé, and the impacts of racisms upon this religions, and starting from this two points, this research is developed based on decolonial debate, reflecting on speeches about nature and its preservation, race and racism, with an emphasis on the environmental and religious dimensions.