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1. Afro-Brazilian religions. 2. Trajectory of Religious Life. 3. Identity Expressions. 4. Mythical territoriality. 5.Amazon
Territorialities by Communities of Terreiros”. It is born in the process of knowledge production in the light of Geography, especially with regard to studies of Afro-Brazilian religion and religiosity. Our spatial clipping was a region of the Amazon at the transnational confluence of Brazil and Peru and its influence on Colombia in which we located five terreiros of cults linked to Umbanda and Tambor de Mina. Our interlocutors of different initiation age, presented significant alterations regarding the religious “identity”, which we call Identity expressions, based on the assumption that young practitioners present plural identity components. The construction of the thesis is that, through the notion of "Trajectories of Religious Life", the research work and Geography would be able to study the processes of construction of Identity expressions from the mythical condition of the observed entities: "Leguas", " Malandros” and “Baianos”. These, in turn, find in Terreiro, as a category of territoriality, elements capable of bringing the phenomenological approach closer to geographic studies. As we approach phenomenology, we feel the need to deal with literature and with the congregation of African philosophy. This is because the “cosmoperception” of the Afroreligious directs the field and the religious behavior to the continent, which gives it the philosophical phase of life in communion, as well as the symbolic and material aspects of the cult of the Orixas. Our consideration is that the trajectory of religious life is capable of subsidizing contents of interest to the production of knowledge in geographic science and that the terreiro as a category of place favors the construction of Identity Expressions - be they: historical, social, cultural or religious.