Trajetórias de espiritualidade de mulheres rezadeiras: o que a vida lhes ensinou?

Abstract

The object of this proposed study is to explain the ways how three prayer women constitute their spirituality itinerary. Since then I try to reach the following objectives: To identify in life narratives the formation processes and its interlacement with the formation experience; To understand by the ways the spirituality is constituted what is the fundament of the substratum of becoming the self as a form to appropriate the experiences that gave support to the comprehension of “ walking by themselves” ; To point out what were the elements that may be considered as the identifiers of the way that spirituality took form during the human existence. As a researcher I bring as a reflection some concerns, among them, that one to articulate various formation processes of the subject, believing that´s possible, by them to understand what life has taught to these women. I have used two methods: the autobiography through life narratives and the reflexive interview as instruments that guided the analysis and the spirituality construction. During this continuous process of self formation and of knowledge of its own existence that spiritual experiences emerged. There were four official meetings with each prayer woman and another three happened spontaneously. There were no closed questions but data was obtained by free talking of the women object of this research. This means that questions were not exactly the same but they suffered some variances although the focus was the same subject. I started by visiting the Health School of Sobral, then I visited some surrounding areas of the city and two districts until I met some women that were willing to cooperate with the research. Everything happened very simply. I visited them at home and the interviews were recorded. The chapters were organized explaining howthe subjects of the study were chosen, problems were defined, the research approach was established and how the research was conducted. I consider some concepts as very important to understand the interlacement among the development experiences, its context its contend, their identity, their ancestors, their spirituality and the specific time in the narratives. I had also as objective to find out what was in these experiences that became significant learning to them and tried to identify the aspects that were mobilized in the situations were this experience happened. I tried also to understand what life has taught to these women that articulated the various elements of this identity to do spiritual cure by the dynamics of the formation narrative. I tried to link these processes with knowledge and learning within this scenario of adult formation. Spirituality is an unmatched process that runs during all the existence, takes form and expression with the discovery that they have the gift to cure by praying that leads them to understand that they may become female faith healer or quack.