The acknowledge of Quilombola communities' collective rights brought Black Communities forward to the national and regional political scenes. Those communities were, otherwise, very often invisible outside the local sphere. This new situation conducted those communities to both organize and create to themselves a structured discourse about their own identity and rights in order to fit for the political demands. This circumstance led them to search for many different answers with the purpose to become adequate to this new context - some of them even reject the land regularization process. Notwithstanding, Água Morna community shows some answers that leads one to think about the basis over which their identity is constructed and about their relationship with the land. In order to cope with this new situation, it uses solid group's popular religious practices. The aim of the present paper is to analyze the ways in which this mobilization occurs.
quilombola communities; identity; territory; catholicism
