Irmão Sol, Irmã Lua: gênero, poder e clausura em um mosteiro da Ordem de Santa Clara de Assis - São Paulo

• Ano de defesa: 2015
• Autor(a) principal: Berto, Vanessa de Faria [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
• Palavras-chave em Português: Mosteiros; Vida monastica e religiosa; Poder (Filosofia); Mulheres - Identidade; Women Identity
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/128004; http://www.athena.biblioteca.unesp.br/exlibris/bd/cathedra/01-10-2015/000851736.pdf

The present scientific research sought to understand the ways of living and coexistence that the nuns of St. Clare of Assisi Order provide for them, upon their arrival in the State of São Paulo. In other words, the search aimed to understand the changes and permanencies present in this specific reality, such singular for both the Seculum as well as for the very ecclesiastical life, through the analysis of the constants (re) significations that the Poor Claries perform about your own situation. For this purpose, it was necessary to contextualize the origins of monasticism and religious closure and as these both were expanded in the West, mainly from the precepts of the Franciscanism and Rules created by both Francisco and Clare of Assisi, in the thirteenth century. Beyond this survey historiographical, was also necessary to trace the trajectory of women who share these ideas monastic, revealing the feminine condition inside cloister walls, as well as established relationships not only with the Catholic clerical hierarchy, but with the secular society in general. In the approach of contemporary Clarian experience of São Paulo Monastery was can see that the nuns, at the same time that have adapted to a capitalist and globalized reality to survive economically and in society, still remained attentive to the precepts of its founder, organizing in Coenobitical units and animating their daily lives by the Crafts of the Hours. The practice of silence and solitude in the cells, the profession and the vows of personal poverty, obedience and chastity remained parties involved in St. Clare vocation. Thus, the study of monastic religious of the Order of St. Clare possible to the knowledge of their rites and their ceremonies, yesterday and today, in which the nuns establish and strengthen their ties with the sacred.