A liderança feminina no espaço do terreiro de candomblé da Bahia como estratégia de luta, resistência e amor : no combate ao preconceito e ao racismo religioso

Abstract

The ateaching of the History of Africa and racial ethnic groups, although reaffirmed by law, is still lacking in schools. Notably, there still is a strong resistance by most of the teachers on working in this theme, heritage of an Historical Knowledge built on the cristian, eurocentric and colonizers' ideals from society. Added up to those factors, there are a bit of racism, another of prejudice and religious intolerance doses. When analyzing the hostile scenario of nowadays, with persecution of Saint's Houses, evidenced by attacks to few of thee country's yard in the past few months, isn't becomes ineffable to discuss about the women's role and religiosity of African matrix inside the African History's content, or even, Brazil's History, in order to inbuilt the demonizing created about Candomblé, rooted on society's imaginary, which is only a representation of the very black people's demonization. Under this perspective, the holy space used for African religious rituals must be aborded so people know how it's about a fight history, full of resistance to maintain alive a ancestors tradition, which assigned to the women, the main character's role on the unifying a large variety of ethnic groups process, that landed on bahian soil. In the first chapter, we approach the diaspora, black female occupation of urban space and solidarity networks. In the second chapter, we emphasize the importance of discussing Law 10.639 in schools, to combat racism, religious intolerance and prejudice. We close with the discussion of female supremacy in Bahian Candomblé, highlighting the role of Mãe Menininha, an important black religious leader from Bahia who led a house of ancestral tradition for sixtyfour years.