Festas Populares Religiosas e suas Dinâmicas Espaciais

Abstract

The present study it treats, theoretically, of the religious popular parties, that if multiply and if they renew as cultural patrimony of the Brazilian metropolises. It establishes a special attention to the geographic dynamic that occur in the city of Fortaleza, Ceará. The central objective is to verify as the motivation of the popular parties, in its different aspects - mythical, politicians, sociological,economic -collaborates with a new ambient and educative dimension: the development of alternatives to the tourist interchange. The methodology, centered in the complex thought looked for, the correlation between offers of important folkloric manifestations and the demand for spectacles in the planning of the Tourism. The result reached expresses the strengthening of these manifestations as tourist sanctuaries. Denying, therefore the restrict vision that collates religions aspects and spectacular aspects; traditions and tourism. In the metropolises, popular parties are necessarily mass parties.