A alma humana e os sentidos do feminino em Edith Stein: um olhar para a Amazônia

Abstract

This study takes on the purpose of unveiling the sense and meanings of the feminine soul that engender the thought of Edith Stein, its importance and influence to gender studies, seeking to understand it in the context of symbolic manifestations and representations of ancestry that have emerged in the social practices of Amazonian women. In the focus of the sociocultural processes of the Amazon, this research meets an approach woven with the threads of interdisciplinarity, under the inspiration of the Morinian dialogical, in frank conversation with Philosophy, Anthropology, History and the Arts, in addition to field voices, experiences and on-site observation. The locus of fieldwork and the study and research group on the thought of Edith Stein formed by theology students of Institute of Theology, Pastoral and Higher Education of the Amazon (ITEPES, initials in Portuguese), located in the city of Manaus, capital city of Amazonas State. We seek to investigate and highlight the principle of the eternal feminine that surrounds women's social practices, which through otherness and empathy inspires an ethos of Well Living with nature, based on the bases of the material and immaterial culture of the Amazon traditional peoples. The methodology, anchored in a phenomenological and rhizomatic perspective of knowledge, focused on the fruitful dialogue between Edith Stein's thoughts and the reports of the subjects of the research. Methodological techniques included secondary sources compared with images, paintings, poems and songs, which added to the in-depth interview. The main results revealed that the female soul in the Amazon reveals itself as a feminine ancestor that intersperse human life with the triad of land, forest and water. Finally, it should be recognized that the female soul in its subjectivity is responsible for weaving relational networks on the lives of women, men, as well as the natural life, an energetic flow or a universal principle that makes life and continuity flow from the planet.