Santuário de Frei Damião: a fé na modernidade e tradições católicas no Brejo Paraibano valores espirituais versus valores materiais

• Ano de defesa: 2012
• Autor(a) principal: Flores Filho, José Honório das
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal da Paraí­ba; Brasil; Ciência das Religiões; Programa de Pós Graduação em Ciências das Religiões; UFPB
• Palavras-chave em Português: Centro religioso; Frei Damião; Cristianismo e modernidade. Turismo religioso. Catolicismo Popular.; Religious center; Friar Damian; Christianity and modernity; Religious tourism; Popular Catholicism; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::TEOLOGIA
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/tede/4185

This dissertation deals with the Shrine of Friar Damian, located in Guarabira, Paraíba, a place marked by peculiarities in the rural practice of Catholicism and religious tourism. The subject studied is full of contrasts between the elements of culture, folk tradition and practices of modern Christianity, specially the Catholic Church, which reconfigures its playing field in society, in order to assimilate the new technologies of mass communication to dissemination of faith. Within the modern religious practices, religious tourism is appearing in a "fuzzy", not very clear, amid promises of pilgrims and an element of great importance to an analysis of the encounter between modernity and secular values, traditional and cultural values particularly motivational, carrying pilgrims, religious journey and tourists to a particular religious center, where under colossal buildings with gigantic images of saints, religious heroes, such as the construction of Damien Memorial Friar, today, Friar Damien Sanctuary. An important element considered in this study is the politician who enters as an essential part in the realization of this undertaking socio-cultural religious. The religious part of the tourism has as reason a popular saint in Northeast: Friar Damian. It is under the figure of Friar Damian as an icon of popular Catholic devotion in northeastern Brazil that this study also addresses to fetch the constituent elements of value and the origins of the myth, the saint and the hero of the building and therefore a kind of Catholic "pantheon in the form of local shrine. This is an ethnographic qualitative research, which led to the interaction / conversation with pilgrims, priests, tourists, businessmen and people involved with the administration of the Shrine of Friar Damian. We conducted participant observation and interviews about the reasons for being there and the Sanctuary in its relations with the devotions, the economic interests of political and religious sectors of the city of Guarabira known fact that physical culture as the queen of the swamp Paraiba.