Ser-tão romeiro: a memória hierofânica do catolicismo popular sertanejo e sua espacialização em Juazeiro do Norte - CE

• Autor(a) principal: Oliveira, Paulo Wendell Alves de
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFG
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/9621
• topic: Memória hierofânica; Catolicismo popular sertanejo; Juazeiro do Norte; Geografia da religião; Sistema simbólico; Hierophant memory; “Sertanejo” popular catholicism; Juazeiro do Norte; Geography of religion; Symbolic system; CIENCIAS HUMANAS::GEOGRAFIA

This thesis is included in the subfield of the geography of religion, in which one the concept construction of hierophant memory, based on the religious system of “sertanejo” popular Catholicism and its forms of spatialization in the city of Juazeiro do Norte - Ceará. Understanding the constitution of the hierophant memory runs through the analysis of three fundamental points that structure the religious group, producing a narrative form in which one the subjects recognize each other. The first point goes from the historical analysis of the processes that structure the studied group, the existing theoretical contributions and the examination of historical documents under the group are of fundamental relevance to understand the relations that allow the subjects to recognize themselves belonging to the same symbolic cultural system. This study’s second point is the understanding of the forms of spatialization of devotional practices of “sertanejo” popular Catholicism, taking these spaces as spatializing spaces of religious symbolic practices, constituting themselves of documents that are going to be analyzed. We should seek to understand the materiality and immateriality present in the religious systems, to map the sacred places that assume a character of cosmos, differentiated from the profane space in its surroundings and how the resignification of these places produces a memory of the place. The third point is composed of the collective memory of the religious group of “sertanejo” popular Catholicism, making a mapping of the subjects belonging to the symbolic system, attesting their belonging to this belief system, trying to conduct interviews in order to understand the intersubjective form of subjects’ recognition and the production of the group’s narrative. Based on these theoretical-methodological aspects, it was possible to construct a picture under the hierophant memory of the “sertanejo” popular Catholicism for its spatialization in Juazeiro do Norte, the ways that the narratives were produced, the intentions that permeate this production and how the different subjects recognize themselves as belonging to the same symbolic system of religious beliefs, here called the “sertanejo” popular Catholicism. Space becomes a space of being, appropriated by the symbolic cultural system, expressing both cultural context and social yearnings. The hierophant memory constitutes the analysis’ basis for the understanding of different religious symbolic systems and a contribution to theoretical discussions in the subfield of the geography of religion.