Romaria: um espaço de intersecção do urbano com o rural (o caso de Trindade).

Abstract

This dissertation is the result of a research project on the pilgrimage of the ox-carts for the Divino Pai Eterno Party in Trindade Goiás, designed and carried out in urban space in the city of Inhumas, while starting and finishing point of the pilgrimage. The objective of this research work was to analyze the capacity of the pilgrimage of ox-carts for Trindade Party suit the socio-cultural changes resulting from the urbanization process. We worked mainly with the concepts of rurality, popular Catholicism/pilgrimage and urbanization. It was carried out a field research which included interviews with twenty pilgrims and the participating observation carried out during the pilgrimage of ox-cart to the Trindade Party on the way Inhumas Trindade, from June 23 to July 6, 2010. Being a typical practice of rurality, but practiced in urban space, the pilgrimage of the ox-carts become a dialogue and intersection space of urban with countryside. It is in the urban context marked by individualism and by a constant barrage of scientific-technological and social changes that a group of ox-carts pilgrims, residents of the city of Inhumas, seeks to take its rural ethos, living in the practice of the pilgrimage of ox-carts for the Trindade Party ideals intrinsic to rural life, they are: community and family.