Oração e sangue: análise histórica da Ordem da Santa Cruz, os penitentes do Sítio Salgadinho, Aurora (CE) (2015-2018).

Abstract

The present study is an analysis of the community of the Order of Santa Cruz of the Penitent from Aurora (CE) in the southern region of Cariri cearense. It is used the temporal cut between 2015 and 2018 (period of ethnographic accompaniment with the group), allied to the theoretical methodological conceptions of Cultural History, and a dialogue with ethnography. The research on these men said sacred of the rural zone of the city Aurora (CE) is based on three types of sources: photographs, orality and audiovisual resources. Penitents are farmers who have a connection in their own way with the divine and their community, and understand the specificities of the Order of the Santa Cruz is relevant to understand the socio-historical particularities around this group and to make an analysis of this religiosity. The role of this monograph was built through three concepts: identity, memory and representation, as relevant tools to understand this religiosity. Therefore, this research was a study directed to penitents in the mystical-religious spheres, practices, social relations and the symbolic field, besides stimulating possible answers to some concerns and problems around this object of research. This monograph is a study based on analyzing the penintentialism of Aurora (CE) through the particularities, cosmogonies and social relations around these practices.