A Festa dos Reis Magos: tradição e modernização na microrregião do sudoeste de Goiás

• Ano de defesa: 2018
• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Washington Maciel da
• Orientador(a): Quadros, Eduardo Gusmão de
• Banca de defesa: Quadros, Eduardo Gusmão de , Lemos, Carolina Teles , Nascimento, Renata Cristina de Sousa , Pérez, Amilcar Carpio , Passos , Mauro
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-Graduação STRICTO SENSU em Ciências da Religião
• Departamento: Escola de Formação de Professores e Humanidade::Curso de Teologia
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: Identidade; Campo–Cidade, Modernização; Devoção Popular.
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Identity, City-Country, Modernization, popular piety.
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CIENCIAS HUMANAS::TEOLOGIA
• Link de acesso: https://tede2.pucgoias.edu.br/handle/tede/4088

SILVA, Washington Maciel Da. THE FEAST OF THREE KINGS MEN’S: tradition and modernization in the Southwest Microregion of Goiás. PhD Thesis in Sciences of Religion. Stricto Sensu Post-Graduate Program in Religious Sciences. Pontifical Catholic University of Goiás. Teacher and Humanities Training Shool. Goiânia: PUC Goiás, 2018. Three wise men’s devotion is a traditional feast and representation of popular Catholicism and popular piety in micro region of the Southwest state of Goias. This devotion represent a demonstration of identity and faith of local worshipper. The present research aim to understand identity and representations of historical tradition as contemporary practice and explain the key concept of “modernization”. The aim of this study is also to made explicit how modernization pos 70’s transformed rural tradition but also how urban practices of religion are being transformed by maintaining tradition. How are the new experiences conditioned by this modernization present in religious reinterpretation? Is it possible to say that belief and tradition have also been modernized? Research focus and methodological choices are align with interdisciplinary approach and the use of Religious Social Studies and Cultural history. Main hypothesis is that Three wise men’s devotion (best known in Latin-American countries as three magi kings) is a mark of perpetuation and maintaining of identities and representation within the context of City-Country and also is an evidence of remaining of tradition as a way of devotion for the worshipers. Theory and methodological procedures use for the study were diverse: bibliographical, documentary, audiovisual, iconographic, quantitative and qualitative approach and participative observation. Results obtain made explicit how the feast integrate historically popular Catholicism and break the daily of worshippers. Thu a religious reinterpretation emerge within modernity. Festivities of Three wise men are an example of junction of devotion are historically conceive as an in development practice. The festivities are indeed traditional but it’s also a way of re-signifiying modern day for worshipers.