PRÁTICA DE LETRAMENTO RELIGIOSA EM UM POVOADO NO AGRESTE DE ALAGOAS: TRADIÇÃO, RELIGIOSIDADE E TERRITÓRIO

Abstract

This work aims to analyze a practice of religious literacy in a prayer event of the day of the dead which took place in the community of a village in the countryside of Alagoas. It is a practice analyzed in an Ethnography of Language, second GARCEZ; SCHULZ (2015), and SANTOS (2019) whose research scenario was a village that was constituted and located between two municipalities in the Mesoregion of Agreste Alagoas People's ways of participating in the All Souls Day prayer are analyzed. In terms of results, it is identified in this practice of local literacy, people build through their participations, ways of interacting with written texts, values and local identities, such as religiosity and tradition. In conclusion, the need to recognize literacies as socio-cultural and closely associated with the values and identities of communities, as in the village is reaffirmed.