DEVOÇÃO E SANTIDADE NAS CASAS DE CARIDADE: A IDEALIZAÇÃO MARIANA DO PADRE IBIAPINA

Abstract

This paper aims at analyzing socio-cultural relations prevailing inside father Ibiapina’s Charity Houses, which contributed to his social work emphasizing the figure of Mary as developed by Classical Mariology. In this sense, Reception History was an important tool in this analysis, along with a dialogue with some distinguished authors who privilege this gender in their works. A review of the works of Bourdieu, Geertz, Berger, and Foucault among other social thinkers was necessary to accomplish a more vivid portrait of the social interactions experienced in the research, as well as the religious foundation of their relations, considering that their ideas allowed us to make an in-depth study of the social constructions that prevail in them. This kind of reflection let a large result concerning father Ibiana’s letters, the sisters’ of charity ones, the statute ruling the Charity Houses, the poems of the charity sisters published in the Voz da Religião no Cariri newspaper, and the moral maxima written down by father Ibiapina. All considered, we are sure that these core issues granted a better comprehension of what happens among the members of the group and between them and their counterparts.