O Tombamento da “Goméia”: atravessamentos entre religião e cultura na“divinização” da memória de um tata

Based on the use of the figurative perspective, this article addresses contemporary relations between religion and culture, but focusing on the historic event of nomination as a Fluminense cultural heritage of the land where Terreiro da Gomeia was located, in Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro. In order to do this, positions are inserted in circuits and instances of symbolic production which act in the assembly of the current framework of memory related to the biography of the “tata” Joaozinho da Gomeia. The objective is to discuss the socio-historical factors which result in the current equation of the figure of Joaozinho da Gomeia as a sign of an affirmative agenda of cultural diversity, because it seems to match the deification of diversity itself as an irreducible value in the qualification of humanity and its actions.