As espacialidades da festa de Nossa Senhora da Piedade em Araguaiana - MT

Abstract

Religious festivals, in geographic development, are quite relevant, they portray people's actions in their acts of faith, leaving symbolic marks on the landscape. The development of the work, whose objective is to discuss the spatialities of the feast of Nossa Senhora da Piedade in Araguaiana-MT, brings up the cultural geography and the geography of religion. In view of this, the research sought to relate the city, the sacred and the festival in the light of the geography of religion, to tell the story of the city of Araguaiana from the devotion to its patron saint Nossa Senhora da Piedade and to present the sacred and profane expressions of the festival of Nossa Senhora da Piedade, which took place in 2022. The methodologies used were bibliographical and documental research, interviews and participant observation, with direct contact between the researcher and the organizers and the public before and during the festivities, and the description of all events. possible times. The research showed that during the period of the religious festivity the city is transformed, it gains a new shine with the manifestations of faith and the spatiality of the sacred and the profane produced by different social agents. Commerce heats up and the flow of devotees and visitors to Araguaiana increases, as people come from different places to celebrate the patron saint who arrived by the river and represents the bonds of the Araguaian people with the Araguaia.