GEOGRAPHY AND REPRESENTATIONS OF SACRED PLACES: AN ANALYSIS OF PALMEIRA-PR

Abstract

This research concerns to the submitted project to the Scientific Initiation Program of the Midwest State University (UNICENTRO) in 2015. Its main goal was to seek the theoretical propositions that aim to give prominence to the interpretation of socio-spatial phenomena, that is, to understand the representations of the sacred contextualized in the geographical imagination in the city of Palmeira, State of Paraná. For a better analysis and understanding, we seek to understand the practices and uses of the “Bom Jesus do Monte“, better known as “Capelinhas de Vieiras”. This place is located in the community of Vieiras in the countryside of the county, in this area are built 14 chapels in cruse form, which represent the devotion of a Portuguese immigrant by the deities who attended him when requested. After the bibliographical analysis, informal interviews were conducted with people from the community of Vieiras, as well as questionnaires in the printed form were applied about the uses and utility of the place. Through the results obtained we come to some considerations and proposals, made at the end of this article.