A EDUCAÇÃO AMBIENTAL NOS TERREIROS: Uma prática para o favorecimento da saúde e para o fortalecimento da cultura africana nos centros umbandísticos de Imperatriz MA.

Abstract

The present study orbits around education, environmental education, health and religiosity of people who frequents spiritual folkways temples, especially Umbanda, aiming to show its natural characteristics present in a historical and anthropological context, but which is alive until nowadays even with so much transformation throughout the ages.That transformation reverses in an accentuated Syncretism since black people rebuilt their family and cultural-religious-society lives through their history. We delimit this research to a sample of ritualistic process of Umbanda, selected based on demand of this research subject, in this case Terreiro de Santana, in the city of Imperatriz, State of Maranhão, since they opened their temple doors both for our research and investigation as the ideas introduced throughout the entire work. Thus, this research determined as subject the leaders, as well those that frequent the temples (terreiros). In this context, examine from samples Discuss the nature correlation as a source of matrix in the Umbanda ritualistic process with the Environmental Education and the health process that is the central question that moves us in this research construction, for this we organized the work around the following aspirations: To realize a historical-anthropological approach of the black slaves in Brazil in order to situate the subjects and the research field and give us a base to reflect how they interrelate identity culture health and religious, and then comprehend its importance for the cultural revival and religiosity resignation of this people, in order to help us to identify the possible ways that the Environmental Education contributes to the religiosity resignation. We designed a bibliographic research to support our data that we collected during the ethnographic field research. This research concluded that these narratives bring what is stronger in people identification.