FESTA E DEVOÇÃO POPULAR DO DIVINO ESPÍRITO SANTO EM ARAGUAÍNA TOCANTINS: DÉCADA DE 1970 AO ANO DE 2014.

Abstract

This dissertation aims to identify, describe and understand the current invisibility of the Feast of the Holy Spirit in the city of Araguaína-TO. That district, the demonstration in honor of the Divine experienced its heyday in the late 1960s and early 1970s, just when the region experienced a major outbreak of economic and political development, attracting thousands of devotees. Around the second half of the 1980s, however, diminished the enthusiasm and popular participation in the party, as well as the rituals and the support from the Catholic Church and the State. Our research is supported by both the literature works and publications of writers, academic institutions and articles available in electronic media, as in exploratory research with interviews with participants devotees of the Party from the 1970s to the present day. Our filing is justified in understanding how communities, especially rural ones, which have a very strong connection with religion, interact to form your cultural leather, encompassing the preservation of assumptions and heritage for future generations of social elements trainers and anthropological identity of a population. Even that may occur a transformation movement of the presence of the faithful in the celebration of the Divine Party in Araguaina-TO, especially in recent decades, yet this celebration is worthy of study so that they can understand the aspects that come motivating your loss faithful. The study results provide a glimpse that the importance of the Feast of the Holy Spirit in Araguaína-TO is the renewal of the identity of the Tocantins people, social interaction of the population, in reaffirming their cultural assumptions. In this sense, the interviews glimpse, and a nostalgia of decades past, when the Divine festival that territory was an event of great proportions, also a resumption of self-esteem and appreciation, when religious celebration had echo in the other Brazilian regions, raising the social importance of Tocantins people.