A infância candomblecista: Os aprendizados construídos pelas crianças no Terreiro Ilé Axé Igbá Omi

Abstract

In view of the diversity of religions existing in Brazil, Candomblé was chosen, whose trajectory was marked by prohibition, persecution and silencing, based on a demonized conception of its practices and its participants. The analysis proposed here, aims to investigate through observation and sensitive listening of children who attend the terreiro, and understand how they experience childhood within the terreiro and how they learn to deal with the demands involved in religious habitus. In this case, it is an ethnographic research, whose adopted individual interviews and participatory research. The research field is the Candomblé Ilé Axé Igbá Omí terreiro, with mr. Alexandre Cheuen de Logun Edé. The roça de santo is located in the city of São João de Meriti, in the Baixada Fluminense, and recognizing the importance of children's performance in academic research, we chose to meet, listen to and accompany 3 children aged between 4 and 12 years. Listening to these children, my research seeks to build an experience, which places Candomblé as the holder of an ancient world view, of African base, with values based on an ancient world view, of African base, which partly contradicts values of the reason of the State and, therefore, of the school, as these in many moments, are still anchored in a Eurocentric vision (white, Christian and anti-African)