A TERRITORIALIDADE DA IGREJA CATÓLICA EM COLATINA-ES: UM OLHAR A PARTIR DE ZENY ROSENDAHL

Abstract

As cities can be observed and analyzed through many different ways of looking and that cultural geography quest as a prism cultural phenomena associated with religious phenomena, a study was done of the religious space of the town of Colatina in the State of Espírito Santo identifying the contribution of religious institutions in the process of construction of geographical space of the city. It was possible to identify the establishment of a network in the relations between the religious man and religious temples that, from its symbolic impregnation, becomes part of the religious life of the faithful people, acting directly and indirectly on the local identity process as well as the contribution for the maintenance of territoriality and the expansion of the territories of the Catholic Church in Brazil. This research aimed to focus on the processes of construction of religious territories, force relations and the consequent domination of these territory. It was based in the literature survey on the works of authors like Zeny Rosendahl , Mircea Eliade , Roberto Lobato Correa among others , discussed the concepts of sacred space , profane , territory , territoriality , identity and symbolism . Secondly it was analyzed the process of building the religious territory of the Catholic Church in Brazil and its power structures, dispersion strategies and spatial diffusion, administrative and organizational hierarchy, territorial politics, the contribution of devotion and Ecclesial Communities Base, the creation of diocesan networks and the different historical contexts of its history since the colonial period until the present day. The third moment came for analysing the religious territory of the urban core of Colatina , most specifically in the city downtown, the presence of a nucleus scattering the sacred observed: the Sacred Heart of Jesus Cathedral Church, Catholic Church linked which one was responsible for the expansion of the Catholic ecclesiastical force in the city and region.