As romarias da Lapa como experiências do encontro no contexto lítico do santuário do Bom Jesus da Lapa: chamado e resposta

• Ano de defesa: 2014
• Autor(a) principal: Dworak, Krzysztof
• Orientador(a): Brito, Ênio José da Costa
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Ciência da Religião
• Departamento: Ciências da Religião
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Romaria; Santuário do Bom Jesus da Lapa; Experiência religiosa; Mística da romaria; Peregrinação
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Pilgrimage; Sanctuary; Religious experience; Mystique
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::SOCIOLOGIA::OUTRAS SOCIOLOGIAS ESPECIFICAS
• Link de acesso: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/1930

This thesis intends to demonstrate that Christian pilgrimages to the sanctuary of Bom Jesus da Lapa, in Bom Jesus da Lapa, Bahia, Brazil, are experiences of religious encounter, occurred in the context of this shrine lytic, understood as calling and response. The sanctuary of Bom Jesus, situated on the right bank of the River São Francisco, in the Midwest of the State of Bahia, founded more than 320 years by Francisco de Mendonça Mar, is considered today, one of the largest sanctuaries in the northeast of Brazil, and one of the most important, among more than 260 existing sanctuaries in Brazil. This sanctuary, as a place of pilgrimages connected to the various phenomena of popular Catholicism, holder of values and internal forces, demonstrates an extraordinary liveliness in a modern society in constant changes and conflicts, and presents itself as a vast field of scientific research. For elaborating our thesis, we left from definition of religion, presented by Gustav Mensching, who considers a phenomena of religion, as an experiential encounter with the sacred, and the active response of the human being, affected by the sacred. The main elements in this definition, that is, the sacred, the religious experience, the called and the response, provided the lifting of various issues and allowed structuring our thesis in four chapters: 1-The shrine of Bom Jesus da Lapa: lytic locus of religious experiences; 2nd-The pilgrimages to Lapa do Bom Jesus as experiences of the call; 3rd-The pilgrimages to Bom Jesus da Lapa as experiences of the response; and, 4-The mystique of the pilgrimage forged in the experience of encounter. So, after walking through all stages of scientific research, we have come to the conclusion, that the pilgrimages to this Sanctuary can be considered as encounters based on spiritual and personal experience with the Bom Jesus, and on the action whereby the pilgrim touching and called by Bom Jesus, answers to him through an act of pilgrimage. These sacred journeys, often repeated cyclically, and expressed in multiplicity of rites, sustain the spirituality of pilgrims and impart deeper sense of their existence. These experiences practiced in the context of this sacred place, marked in a special way by its rock formation, provide for the pilgrims a personal and collective experience of intense and deep encounter with Jesus. Peregrinations, withdraws them from the world for a while, transfigures, transcends and transforms their lives, directing them to areas of everyday life, which is lived in waiting for a new pilgrimage toward sacred home of Bom Jesus, who on the riverbank all can (Guimarães Rosa)