CAPOEIRA, RELIGIÃO E EDUCAÇÃO FÍSICA: AMÁLGAMA ENTRE RELIGIOSIDADE, CULTURA E PESSOALIDADE

Abstract

This present master's research is a work in the field of capoeira as a religious and cultural manifestation in which it focuses on the understanding of the ties that bind Brazilian history to African history as well as the religious elements that serve as the basis for the practice of fight. As a methodology, the exploratory bibliographic research was used to reach the proposed objective, a search was elaborated in the period from 2000 to 2015. However, to improve some ideas and concepts on the subject it was necessary to search for sources. The objective of the research is to understand the development dynamics of capoeira as an educational practice and its respective connection with religion, as well as to emphasize the practices of discrimination of Afrodescendant culture. Capoeira is practiced with musical instruments and corporal work, and besides representing a very important part of the Brazilian culture, treated like black and African matrices culture in Brazil, its a strong instrument of socialization and mobilization of the black in the present time. From the recognized of African cultural origins working with the theme of capoeira is an opportunity for reflection on one's own ethnic-racial identity. It is therefore a question of changing not only the contents, but the look and senses conferred on these contents that cover capoeira. We will associate all these issues that link Capoeira and Education, seeking in this way a greater participation of this in themes related to religion. Finally, we will present capoeira and its relation with religious themes, and we will analyze it as a symbol of the miscegenation of ethnic groups and resistance to oppression and slavery. The importance of this proposal is to understand the necessity of the study of capoeira in the School Physical Education, especially the presenting topic of ethnic-racial relations for discussion, interested in providing an understanding of the different religiosities and the importance that each of them exerts on capoeira. A survey was carried out with 15 physical education teachers from the Jequié-Ba municipality, where 100% (n = 15) of these interviewees were Christians, 47% (n = 07) of them did not work with capoeira in their classes claiming lack of space, material and even lack of knowledge, even 100% (n = 15) of them signaled the importance of the capoeira theme in the daily class, only 40% (n = 06) work the religiosity linked to capoeira. When questioned the participation in some capoeira group only 20% (n = 03) signaled their involvement. It was concluded that the religiousness in capoeira is manifested by the rituals, songs, celebration and memory of the ancestors, in their connection with this past of struggle and suffering. These popular knowledge that determined the religiousness of capoeira expressing a vast field of meanings and connections with the “sacred”, as well as many other manifestations and traditions of the universe of popular culture in Brazil showing that in fact capoeira has a great mixture with religions especially those of African matrices.