Continuidades e descontinuidades na tradição do catimbó - Jurema de Alhandra - PB

Abstract

Catimbó-Jurema is a religion that dates back to ancient indigenous groups that inhabited northeast Brazil. As a cult, it resembles a tradition of knowledge that comes from the articulation of an experience through an "initiation." This work aims to carry out a bibliographic review of narratives and family memories about Mestra Jardecilha and the memory built around her personality and her sacred spaces preserved in the community of Alhandra. The sacred spaces are directly associated with the religious practices of this renowned Master, who, even though she is not alive, marks a space that still concentrates the adepts' memories and still holds many affective memories. Thus, this research aims to contemplate the trajectory, succession and legacy of Mestra Jardecilha through reports and narratives that investigate the dynamics of her spiritual works, her influence as a religious leader in the region and the subjective representations of the place, verified through the reports of the subjects who experienced them in some way. The specific objectives of this work contextualize the Catimbó-Jurema as a religious phenomenon in a bibliographic way, describing its rites and main entities so that later the general objective can be reached.