A Catedral da Sé e o Templo de Salomão: geossímbolos arquitetônicos do poder religioso

• Autor(a) principal: Almeida, Carlos de
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.pucsp.br/jspui/handle/handle/36242
• topic: CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::SOCIOLOGIA::OUTRAS SOCIOLOGIAS ESPECIFICAS; Arquitetura religiosa monumental; Geossímbolo; Poder simbólico religioso; Território religioso; Catedral da Sé de São Paulo; Templo de Salomão da Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus; Monumental religious architecture; Geosymbol; Religious symbolic power; Religious territory; Cathedral of the Sé of São Paulo; Temple of Solomon of the Universal Church of the kingdom of God.

The main objective of this thesis is to analyze the monumental religious architecture in the construction of temples that are understood as geosymbols of construction of an identity place to be territorial headquarters of religious institutions and that in function of their locations express the power and the religious symbolic capital that they hold in the religious field. The Sé Cathedral of the Roman Catholic Church and the Solomon Temple of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God were chosen as the object of study for this analysis due to the representativeness of their architecture in the urban scenario, the place where they were built, and the historical trajectories of these institutions at the moments that led them to build these temples. To fulfill this purpose, the theoretical contribution was made through the knowledge areas of theoretical elements of the Science of Religion, Architecture and Urbanism, Sociology and Geography in order to establish a systemic relationship between the monumental religious architecture with the categories religious imaginary, social imaginary, built social space, territory; territoriality for geosymbolic construction of temples as places assigned religious identities, places of living and experiences of beliefs and the centrality of the symbolic religious majority power. The result of this research revealed that, besides being a strategy of identity communication of religious symbolic power, ostentation of symbolic capital and symbolic violence, the monumental religious architecture is also a strategy that religious institutions use to strengthen themselves in the religious field by building temples as seats of religious symbolic power and territorial control, especially when they feel threatened