¿Cómo nace un santo en el cementerio?: muerte, memoria e historia en el noreste de Brasil = How is a saint born in the cemetery? : death, memory and history in Northeast Brazil
The article analyzes the conditions for the appearance and social reproduction of popular canonization, which can be defined as a spontaneous process of sanctification, neither institutionalized nor formally organized that typically emerges in cemeteries. I will do that by exploring two cases in Rio...
| Published in: | Ciencias sociales y religión |
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| Subtitles: | How is a saint born in the cemetery? |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | Spanish |
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Asociación de Cientistas Sociales de la Religión del Mercosur
2007
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Ciencias sociales y religión
Year: 2007, Volume: 9, Issue: 9, Pages: 59-90 |
| Further subjects: | B
Sanctity
B Memory B Cemetery |
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| Summary: | The article analyzes the conditions for the appearance and social reproduction of popular canonization, which can be defined as a spontaneous process of sanctification, neither institutionalized nor formally organized that typically emerges in cemeteries. I will do that by exploring two cases in Rio Grande do Norte, a state at the Northeastern Region of Brazil: A cangaceiro called Jararaca, in Mossoró; and an assassin called Baracho, in Natal. My aim is to understand which criteria determine the selection of these saints among the deceased buried in a cemetery; and to inquire why an outlaw becomes a saint, but not the former mayor of the city who led the victorious resistance to the invasion plotted by these same outlaws. I analyze the representations of the outlaw’s life as it is remembered and presented mainly through verbal and ritual transmission, and the representations on its posthumous existence and sainctity. I will, therefore, explore the verbal aspect of the rituals around the tomb, and the ways through which they grant symbolic efficacy to the cult (the miracles) and elaborate a memory of the outlaw’s life history. Such memory inevitably leads to another version of the history of the events that led to his death; hence, it also creates another way of telling the history of the town and its local community. |
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| ISSN: | 1982-2650 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Ciencias sociales y religión
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.22456/1982-2650.2512 |