Abstract
- 1. abstract This thesis aims to work with the issue of the nature of the material and symbolic way , from the conception of the world of African-derived religions in Brazil . To conduct this study was working a specific case of a house of worship belonging to the Afro-Brazilian religions in the city of Parnaíba in Piauí . Having as objective foundation that house , the dissertation explores the most of the spatial aspects of the territory of the temple beyond the cognitive aspects of believers participating in this space. Their life stories mingle with the local official history and the cosmic reality of these religions from their sacred myths . The feelings and emotions of the actors in the field are also discussed intensely in ethnographic writing , to reveal how it is designed , ethics and aesthetics of these religions , the relationship between man and nature , or culture and nature . Important rituals of witchcraft and religious are also thickly described to contribute to logically and religious practice at the idea of nature. The nature is presented in a totalizing vision, suggesting a relationship with men , proportional and cooperative . Images of nature , or natural resources , for this work , presented as obvious and fundamental to understanding the worldview of religious group forces . The effort of this research is to provide avenues for understanding the organization of the religious cosmos before man and nature.