Dinâmicas culturais e relações de reciprocidade no Vale do Amanhecer: um estudo de caso sobre o templo de Campina Grande-PB.

Abstract

We chose as object of study a recent esoteric-mystical movement, which in 40 years, erected more than 600 temples in Brazil and in the World: The Valley of the Dawn - VD. Assuming that the VD is a component of the New Age, which in Brazil, acquires a face itself, emerging in a plural and highly mixed and in constant dialogue with the religions stabilized in the religious field, which we called Popular New Age (PNA ). Based on Caille, Martins, Maluf, Amaral, Bourdieu, among other authors, we analyze the cultural dynamics experienced in the Valley of the Dawn in Campina Grande with the aim to see how it makes the process of creating a new habitus among the subjects, showing Above all, the ways through which the reality set up in different fields is both strengthened and challenged. The dynamic established by the VD is marked by the processes of "healing". During our research we found that the focus is on the so-called spiritual problems that include both emotional problems, as affective, working etc. In the VD, the donation of a "spiritual service" is rewarded through the recognition of who receives the service. We conclude that although this is a category of the sacred, effectiveness and explanation of the cure can be found in the material world and that, the displacement of the subject by various fields - in the sense that puts Bourdieu (2006) - will influence in the effectiveness and the legitimacy of it. In light of this reality, the religious experience of the temple of Campina Grande allows the formulation of a healthy lifestyle among its own supporters, setting, so a new way of dealing with the sacred, marked by fluidity and autonomy, however, intermediated by the simbolic that lets the habitus to be a structured structure and in the same time a structuring structure of this religious practice.