Espiritualidade, sofrimento e transformação : sentidos e significados das intervenções espirituais por João de Deus, na percepção dos filhos da casa de Dom Inácio em Abadiânia, Goiás

Abstract

The present thesis aims to talk about the spiritual interventions performed by John of God and the general objective to understand and analyze the senses and meanings of the Sons [daughters] of the House arising from the spiritual interventions performed by John of God in Abadiânia / GO. This general objective was raised from the problem question to be used as a guideline in the development of the work. Studies done show that the medium John of God has served about 11 million people in search of healing for their illnesses and or relief to their minds. The concepts adopted as theoretical referential are: Spiritual Interventions, Senses and Meanings and Spiritism, grounded in the areas of Religious Sciences, especially in anthropology and sociology. As a theoretical framework we used the fundamental concepts of Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann in the social construction of reality, associated with the interpretive or symbolic theory of Clifford Geertz and Mircea Eliade. Such theories have clarified that there is a social structure prevailing in the lives of people in society, at the same time they denote the symbolic construction of the ethos and the world view of each one. From the methodological point of view, it is a qualitative research, and it covered bibliographical research, with Brazilian and foreign authors; and the ethnographic research, having as a locus of research the House of Dom Inácio de Loiola; where the participant observation [accompanied by the field diary] was experienced, as well as 8 in-depth narrative interviews with the Sons [daughters] of the House, based on a guiding script. The data collected revealed as results of the research: spiritual interventions, providing senses and meanings, that served as a gateway for the Sons [daughters] of the House, have become just a detail in a new ethos and worldview encountered, lived daily by them together with spirituality. The cure - wrapped in a wide network of senses and meanings -, sought for their bodies and / or their minds, has become a sense of life that takes into account the constant interrelationship between cause and effect with the moral and intellectual progress of each to himself and to all; the development and practice of love being not only a project but an imperious experience, with or without John of God