“Penitências, performances e sangue”: reflexões sobre os penitentes Aurorenses da Ordem da Santa Cruz no tempo presente.

Abstract

This dissertation has a simple and at the same time enriching premise, within the scope of historical epistemology, as it has the premise of understanding in the present time how practices, performances and symbologies of the Order of the Holy Cross in Aurora, in the Cariri region of Ceará, elaborate and signify time, cosmogony and penitent religiosity. Thus, the categories of temporalities and performances are fundamental in the analysis of this religiosity and its intricacies, interfaces and cultural specificities. Henceforth, history and its connection with anthropology help and weave this text together with a methodology for analyzing imagery sources through visual culture and journalistic sources. Therefore, this text has in its functionality to present narratives, times, beliefs, bodies, bloods, performances and mainly history(s).