Religiosidade potiguara: tradição e ressignificação de rituais na aldeia São Francisco. Baía da Traição - Pb

Abstract

This research presents the religious aspects Potiguara existing in the village of San Francisco with its focus on the beliefs and practices experienced by indigenous people in their daily lives. There are three main religious denominations Potiguara: the traditional indigenous, Catholic and evangelical. The first aspect is passed from father to son, from time immemorial (the benzedras, strong prayers, hymns and toré) believe and revere the spirits of the forests, waterfalls, caves and ancient. The Indian Catholic, which has its foundations in Christianity, but with an ability to reframe recreation and permanent. And the indigenous evangelical, which is based on belief, grounded in Christian worship to the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, but with a "certain" openness to the practices of traditional indigenous religion. We present three separate religious dimensions, just as a didactic way, because in everyday life, they interact with each other, with a very dynamic religious aspect and every church has its doors open to receive members of the various sectors, no religious boundaries between existinto Potiguara. Our way of "mine" was so ethnographic, being present (place) in many moments of ritual. We chose the participant observation methodology because past rituals, there are different interpretations of the stories of indigenous participation in that religious context. We avail ourselves of some theorists, such as: Barcellos, Borau, Cruz Neto, Grunewald, Hoornaert, Eliade, Palitot Vilhena, among others, to support our writing from the data collected in the research field. It is inconceivable in Indian Potiguara as devoid of any creed. Atheist? Agnostic? Religiosity is indigenous in DNA, because the worship and reverence is part of your life and can not separate themselves from each other, like the body without the blood, can not exist, so the indigenous Potiguara without devotional creed hath not life.