Espaço e religião: um estudo sobre a sacralidade em Vitória (ES). O caso do Monte Horebe (Morro da Gamela)

Abstract

Thinking about space in its multiple forms and representations is a task that Geography and geographers have been working on since its origins. For that, they started from their varied scales and valuations, as diverse categories of analysis, evolving as new meanings are being attributed, recreated or rescued. Several views and prisms can be understood as the lenses through which they will be observed in an attempt to be understood in an interdisciplinary and totalizing manner, basic characteristics of Human Geography. Of course, many questions have arisen, or have been formulated as the dynamics of this multifaceted knowledge intensified. As for the autonomous units of this relationship, places, when observed in their details, compared or re-signified in new concepts, can be presented as apparently antagonistic, but as we will demonstrate, they will often be complementary. A clear example of this are what we know as sacred space and profane space. We decided to approach these categories, in order to understand the intertwining existing between the phenomenon of religious pilgrimage in the transformation of space, resignifying it through its uses. We started to understand this dialectical interaction, both in space and in time, more specifically in the city of Vitória (ES), Brazil, where, sometimes clearly, sometimes veiled are perceived through the phenomenon of daytime pilgrimage, which takes place curiously in a locality - Morro da Gamela, renamed Monte Horebe - very unique, in a central and intensely urbanized region. We are based on observation, analysis and research based on concepts from the Geography of Religion. And that can only be analyzed or understood through careful observation of their uses. To this end, we recognize the need for observation, considering the multiscale relationships between man and the environment, such as those with himself, starting with his own body, or, on the scale of his body, referring to an identity with the ―body‖ of City; lived and manifested, through the specific practice of Hierophany, the manifestation of the sacred, which creates connections between the sacred, profane and environment, and act directly on the perceptions, uses and configurations of space through this practice.