Caravaggio sanctuary and the modernization of sacred spaces: ethnographic notes of a pilgrimage in the Serra Gaúcha

This article discusses some modernizing elements present in the rites of pilgrimage and devotion of popular religiosity, in Brazilian Catholicism, more specifically, in the Pilgrimage of N. Mrs. Caravaggio in Farroupilha city, RS. The problematic proposal considers the structure and spatiality of th...

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Autores: Lopes, José Rogério, Silva, Adimilson Renato da
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2012
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)
Repositorio:Ciencias Sociales y Religión (Online)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br:article/8669662
Acceso en línea:https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/csr/article/view/8669662
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Catolicismo tradicional popular
Romaria de Caravaggio
Estratégias de modernização
Peregrinación de Caravaggio
Estrategias de modernizacion
Traditional popular catholicism
Pilgrimage of Caravaggio
Modernization strategies
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Sumario:This article discusses some modernizing elements present in the rites of pilgrimage and devotion of popular religiosity, in Brazilian Catholicism, more specifically, in the Pilgrimage of N. Mrs. Caravaggio in Farroupilha city, RS. The problematic proposal considers the structure and spatiality of the Sanctuay in the city, the path of pilgrimage for devotees in central days of this festival and the discourses and logics of appropriation of symbolic goods in devotion. The operating logic of the actors-devotees interwoven in this “act of faith”, typical of Marian devotions, establish themselves in practices that weave gestures themselves, weft comprehensive meanings important to the composition, rupture or update of popular religiosity, which in more recent times, are “faced” by modernizing rationality that (re)configures the space/time devotee of the act. Followed this context, power will also see, interspersed with ritual structure of the Pilgrimage of Caravaggio, a regional identity that remains now latent, sometimes manifested in devotional rituals that event.