Religião e ambiente dos índios Taurepang de Sorocaima: representações sociais dos Adventistas do Sétimo Dia - Pacaraima - Roraima

Abstract

Our research aims to understand the social representations of Taurepang in their religious experience as well as its connexion with environment, from their early times to the present. His ancestors known as the Caribs or Caribbean; a summary of its history, its achievements, because in the past the Caribbean were called warriors and defenders of Amerindian. The initial research was literature and aimed to increase knowledge about the lives of Taurepang related to their religion and concerns with the environment. Through the literature, interviews and field research deepened the understanding of the Taurepang. The research is focused on a part of Taurepang ethnic group that became Seventh-day Adventist, their new concepts about the environment, the arising of Maloca Sorocaima, their religious social representations guided by the new religion, a new way to worship God and their new concepts about preserving the environment. Historical studies and anthropological members of religious manifestations in his great foundation on the Adventist Taurepang religiosity through literature searches and interviews provided us with a broader deepening of the relationship between the environment and the Seventh-day Adventists in Taurepang Sorocaima. We search to evidence in this study the worldview of Taurepang, their peculiar beliefs about their religiosity in Maloca Sorocaima, so as its new Environmental concepts.