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

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Ano de defesa: 2009
Autor(a) principal: Migliorini, Rogério Costa lattes
Orientador(a): Campos, Leonildo Silveira lattes
Banca de defesa: Guerriero, Silas lattes, Souza, Sandra Duarte de lattes
Tipo de documento: Dissertação
Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
Idioma: por
Instituição de defesa: Universidade Metodista de São Paulo
Programa de Pós-Graduação: PÓS GRADUAÇÃO EM CIÊNCIAS DA RELIGIÃO
Departamento: 1. Ciências Sociais e Religião 2. Literatura e Religião no Mundo Bíblico 3. Práxis Religiosa e Socie
País: BR
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Link de acesso: http://tede.metodista.br/jspui/handle/tede/496
Resumo: 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)