Sacred place: space for the construction of territorialities

Abstract

This article aims to demonstrate that the idea of ​​territoriality is born in the sacred place. There is no knowledge of a territoriality that is not built from a symbolic discourse, and this discourse is usually produced in the geographical category called place. In this sense, it is not the territory that produces territoriality, it is the result of it. It is also important to highlight that the sacred place studies the reading of space from a mythic / symbolic / religious and non-materialist objectivist narrative. Such a situation recommends that a contemporary geography does not shy away from its mythical updating. This text lists authors and researchers working in cultural geography, in the sciences of religion and in theology who, mainly, see the relationship between space and religion as a necessary and not only accepted hermeneutic. At some point, the article proposes the category place as a geographical category a priori, that is, from where as categories territory, landscape and region are thought and configured, as well as, it defends the idea that it is in the place where social relations are thought and felt. Finally, the text hints at the possibility of a permanence of this mythical understanding of space in our contemporaneity.