A festa de São Sebastião no setor guaxupé em Porto Nacional-Tocantins

Abstract

Culture is constituted by the everyday world experienced by all human beings, where everyone moves in the territory, whose territorialities are defined by cultural differences and where power manifests itself. The geography of religion studies the territoriality of religious manifestations and the local geographic aspects. The general objective of this research is to analyze the São Sebastião party, in the Guaxupé Sector in Porto Nacional-TO, from the perspective of the geography of religions from a bibliographic review on the general and specific theme, an organization of images and photographs and interviews with participants in the festivities. This festival is lived through experiences that are expressed with the occurrence of the religious rite, allowing devotees to acts of faith and devotion during festive ceremonies and is configured as an event, legitimizing the socio-religious order that Catholics have, in their own reality territorial.