Corpos mortos e vivos: as cerimônias mortuárias e as representações da morte entre católicos brasileiros

• Autor(a) principal: Migliorini, Rogério Costa
• Data de Publicação: 2009
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da METODISTA
• Texto Completo: http://tede.metodista.br/jspui/handle/tede/496
• topic: Corpos mortos e vivos; ritos mortuários; luto; céu; inferno; purgatório; catolicismo e morte; Dead and live bodies; death rites; mourning; heaven; hell; purgatory; Catholicism and death; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS

The intention of this research was to describe, and analyse death ceremonies and collective representations of Brazilian Catholics regarding death and mourning. Our objective was to study the symbolic systems developed in several societies, by starting from tribal cultures, then moving to Early Christianity from the period just before and after the institutionalisation process that gave birth to Catholic Christianity. We analysed both, the Catholic practices and representations related to death and dying, in the Middle Ages, as well as in the Modern and Contemporary times both in Europe and Brazil. We also aimed to depict death rites as a way to give meaning to life, and of keeping and reinforcing social cohesion found whenever death takes a member of a given society, thus provoking disruption and social unbalance. By doing this research on Catholic death rites we had as a goal to develop a little more the knowledge about a social and religious phenomenon that is seldom approached by researchers, the death of the believer, and Catholic groups death practices, their customs and speeches about the dead. Nevertheless, we cared to do all of these in the Brazilian scenery, a setting that grows more and more urban and secular.(AU)