Ethnoecological architecture in the Catholic Amazon: religion-making from the indigenous cathedral

• Grant number: 21/06041-7
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: November 01, 2021
• End date: October 25, 2026
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Anthropology
• Principal Investigator: Paula Montero
• Grantee: Adriano Santos Godoy
• Host Institution: Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento (CEBRAP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 21/14038-6 - Religious pluralism and diversities in post-constituent Brazil, AP.TEM
• Associated scholarship(s): 22/15879-7 - Ecology and ethnicity in contemporary catholicism, BE.EP.PD

Abstract

This postdoctoral research project has as a privileged case of anthropological inquiry the processes of conception, formulation, construction and finishing of the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes - known as the ""Indigenous Cathedral"" - and carried out by the Salesian Mission in the community of Maturacá (Amazonas). With the hypothesis that from this temple an ""ethnoecological religion"" is made, this research will seek to elucidate the articulations between ecology and ethnicity that guide the socio-environmental policies carried out by the catholic church in the Amazon region and, thus, reposition it in the dispute for the Brazilian civic-public space. (AU)