INVENTÁRIO DE BENZEÇÕES, REZAS E NOVENAS, FOLIAS E CONGADA: educação nas manifestações culturais.

Abstract

This study is connected to the Research Line of Education, Society and Culture. It was proposed to document some cultural events in the popular religiosity field, aiming to analyze their practices as mediators and facilitators of human formation and so the education, as predicted by LDBEN-1996. This wide notion of Education has adopted it in different social areas not only to school, being unnecessary to link them to formal and informal dichotomy, institutional or non-institutional. Cultural and social diversity have become legitimate. Because of its cultural reference Nova Veneza city, an Italian colonization site in Goias, Brazil is the locus where Consecrating, Prayers, Novenas, Congada and Folias events take place. These cultural expression ways are showed in popular religious events organized on a Christian festival calendar which happens every year. The theoretical construction used Durkheim (1977), Bourdieu (1980,1989, 2008), Brandão (1983,1986, 1996, 2007), Pereira and Gomes (2002), Burke (2010), Thompson (1998), Bosi (1994), among others as contributions. This article was designed over an ethnographic qualitative methodology, participant and non-participant observation procedures were also used, pictures, technical and historical documents, filming and interviews authorized by its protagonists as well. All cultural events showed through their religious and educational rituals a wide knowledge and symbolism in goods which are culturally transmitted from older to younger generations as Durkheim predicted in his concept of education as a socializing process. In structuring cultural / practices / rites events and rituals there is a hierarchy between the one who holds the knowledge / power and children and young people who become learners in a non-formal process. The study and the theoretical references allowed us to reveal and understand how educational meanings that these practices pass on. It was possible to prove from some indicators that education as a human formation process develops in social cultural networks events defined within this investigation limits.