Paper short abstract:

This paper is a partial result of the doctoral thesis in the field of cultural geography. It analyzes the spatiality of the Islamic sacred celebration of Ashura for a comprehensive knowledge about the constructions of religious territorialities in Brazil.

Paper long abstract:

This research analyzes a religious celebration with particularities relevant to the field of geography. The investigation sought to understand how the sacred is manifested in its territory, considering the particularity of the research object. From the conceptual deepening on the screen, the perspectives on the meaning of territory seek to describe, analyze and classify, within human geography, specifically the renewed cultural geography, a cultural and religious performance of great demographic expressiveness and still little divulged in the Brazilian academic community. Therefore, the knowledge of this Islamic celebration adds, in a comprehensive and timely manner, new possibilities to interpret the place and the territory, extending its meaning and proposing new forms of appropriation of the concepts, thus surpassing the spatial Paulo, Brazil, and entering into subjectivity with the mobile territoriality through Terra Imaginalis. The geosymbols exposed in their representativeness as the foundation and standard of an ideological apparatus, gain in this research, focus and relevance. Through this new territorial construction, new developments of great social impact, such as the construction of new identities and the maintenance of a Libanese community originating from a great migratory mass after 1880, are observed, which today compose Brazilian society in a continuous process of assimilation. For an in-depth analysis of Ashura, the ethnographic method of participation, collection and analysis of data was made necessary and appropriate.