O poder simbólico da religião: a dialética da exclusão e inclusão nos espaços sagrados da Igreja Católica na região metropolitana de São Paulo

• Autor(a) principal: Pereira, José Carlos
• Data de Publicação: 2008
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/3918
• topic: Religião católica; Poder simbólico; Espaço sagrado; Bens simbólicos; Sacramentos; Ritos; Igreja Catolica -- Sao Paulo (cidade); Religiao e sociologia -- Sao Paulo (cidade); Catholic religion; Symbolic power; Holy space; Symbolic assets; Sacraments; Rites; CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS

This dissertation explains about the symbolical power of exclusion and inclusion exerted by the Catholic Religion in the social life of its devotees, based on the influence that it has to limit status inside or outside of its holy spaces. On the one hand, that condition is made of the reproduction of inequality and social and religious tie slackness provided by it self. On the other hand, it strengthens social laces. Furthermore, inside of the temples and on the ecclesiastical hierarchy we find privilege concessions that show clearly such contradiction. That is exhibited in successive stages, which are classified as a dialectic process, emphasizing the specificness of the anachronic and modern disparities that pass through the base of the Catholic Church. Two distinct sets were chosen in order to do this study: one in the Central region of São Paulo, known as Pinheiros sector and the other on the surroundings of Osasco, known as Santo Antonio sector. This work methodology consists in showing the counterpoint between those two different areas of the Catholic Church realm and is divided in three chapters that try to connect the dialectic procedure. The first one tells us about the holy space, which is the temple as a place of collective representation which establishes the Catholic Religion imaginary. The second one, through a map of the metropolitan area of Sao Paulo with various social indicatives, analyses the social exclusion and inclusion dialectics and its analogy to the religions factor. The third chapter talks about the faculty of the Catholic Church symbolic assets that are the seven sacraments and their exclusion and inclusion functionality both the immanent and the transcendent life of the Faithful. In the final considerations, the conclusions found in each chapter were joined again, showing in this way not only the influence the religion carries out in the social life but also the social arrangements that it enables in the community and for individual