The present study aims to understand how the legitimization and maintenance processes of the devotion culture occur and their interlacing with the reasons why the workers become devotees to an organization. In this sense, ...

In recent decades, a wealth of publications has examined the role of religion in early modern society, culture and politics. This includes pioneering work on the importance of lay piety to civic identity in the Renaissance ...

The city of Santa Maria, RS state, is well-known as a religious center of Marian devotion and is an attraction for pilgrims and visitors, mainly because of the annual pilgrimage of Our Lady Medianeira . Silveira Martins, ...

Este artigo aborda o confronto entre um catolicismo autoritário, tridentino e romanizador, que penetrou no Brasil na segunda metade do século XIX e se consolidou nas primeiras décadas do século XX, e o catolicismo tradicional ...

Este artigo aborda o confronto entre um catolicismo autoritário, tridentino e romanizador, que penetrou no Brasil na segunda metade do século XIX e se consolidou nas primeiras décadas do século XX, e o catolicismo tradicional ...

Maria Zaira Cordova Penna, better known as Mariazinha Penna, having been affected by cancer, died in extreme suffering, still very young, only 20 years old, in 1953. Since then, according to reports, an intense pilgrimage ...