O PÚBLICO E O PRIVADO: UMA RELAÇÃO DE PODER NA ROMARIA AO SENHOR DO BONFIM DE ARAGUACEMA NO TOCANTINS

Abstract

The popular Catholicism is considered a non-oficial way of religiosity. It is impregnated of strong elements for the official Catholicism. Among the great many ways of manifestation of the popular catholicism we recognize the pilgrimage. By studying the pilgrimage to the Senhor do Bonfim city is to comprehense a bit how manifest the popular Catholicism itself. By this pilgrimage we also want to study the relations of power existent among the agents that offer and handle the religiosity putting a question among the public and the private on the religion. A detail that makes the study of this pilgrimage different is the fact the saint at issue has a particular owner increasing the conflicts with the church. By the comprehension of this religions phenomenon we will use further as reading keys, the process of secularization of the society and the holy, the relation between religion and sacrifice plenty in question on the pilgrimages, a knowledge through the analytic categories of Weber and Durkheim and the knowledge of the pilgrimage as element of the memory and the imaginary.