Nossa Senhora de Natividade, a presença do sagrado no Brasil: um estudo fenomenológico

Abstract

This dissertation tries to investigate an appealing religious phenomenon in the Brazilian popular tradition in the last century - Maria's appearance, Mother of Jesus - tends as main focus an Maria’s appearance happened in Nativity, city of the fluminense north, in the second half of the century XX, among the years from 1967 to 1978 and that he/she has at the ranch of the appearance, until the days today, a place of strong pilgrimage and manifestation of the popular religiosity. The proposal is to observe this phenomenon starting from the phenomenological perspective, trying to understand him/it while a legitimate manifestation of a religious mystic experience. The work has some discussions that cross this central axis of the research, but that has relevance in the construction of the text, being fundamental for the main discussion, as: the tensions epistemological inside of the Science of the Religion, the viability of a heterodox and interdisciplinary method in the scientific production of the study of the religion, mystic's conception and their implications in the academic field, the recognition of the religious dimension as essential in the human being's existential constitution. To defend an epistemology and a methodology that allow to the science an understanding of the religious phenomenon that doesn't ignore his/her singularity and his/her specificity in this constitution ontological of the human being is an objective of this work and the appearances marianas as spontaneous expression of a religiosity typically popular a privileged locus is shown for a study with this purpose, being her in itself a characteristic evidence of the religious dimension: the eternal renewal of his/her manifestation.