Expressão do religioso e os sepultamentos: as transformações no modelo cemiterial brasileiro

Abstract

The present work started from a historical survey of the death in the Western World in a long duration that goes from this the origins of Christianity with direction to contemporary Brazil, and through this directed the look at the relation of the Catholic Church with the cemeteries, as well as in the elements which makes up the imaginary of death in every moment of society. It seeks to understand, from the great enterprises memorials Parque-Jardins cemeteries, its internal regiments and the publicity of the death market, to understand permanences and ruptures in relation to the elements of the religious in these new spaces destined to the dead in Brazil, affirming the thesis of that the spaces related to death and the dead, previously manifestly Catholic and later, theoretically secular, after the second half of the twentieth century are opening up to private and market interests, passing through a process of dissimulation and symbolic silencing of Catholicism in a context of marked growth of religions of Protestant Christian base. The thesis here is that death by becoming a commodity, to become economically viable as such, goes through a process of masking the religious.