Experiências formadoras dos Romeiros do Padim Ciço: entre a busca de cura, rezas e ritos

Abstract

This study present an ethnographic research with a general goal of describing an understanding the experience of getting an the search of healing by the pilgrims in Juazeiro do Norte. The methodology used was interviewing the pilgrims, field diary an observations. The narrative was recorded an transcribed, meanwhile a scanning reading about the field reports and observation was carried on, as well as the abstained narratives which were codified an exploited by natives deep reading in search of exhaustive similarities between the contents. Therefore, the organization of the corpus was carried out in two grinding themes, according to the pertinences of the emerged discussions of the similar elements associated to the research goals and pilgrims’ narratives, the conceptions and performances in the experience of illness and search for healing. This search for healing is little by little being purified on its meanings and the gradually units of contents as a conceptions of healing, faith, health-illness and learning that comes whit the achievement of healing. The second category, the rituals of experiencing search for healing, was referred in subcategories such as: professional relation and service of health-patient, healing performance, body where the healing occurs healing scenery, procedures used in search of healing and outfit. The final report was written emphasizing health anthropology which allowed the comparisons between the healing medical model and the symbolic healing of the experience of search for healing of the pilgrims; the beginning of the circle of pilgrims en pilgrimage; the scission of the main aspects of the study like spirituality, religions, popular religiousness and the relation with the experience of getting ill and health. At last understanding of rituals as a transformative expression, learning, the practical knowledge and performances in pilgrimage as an important role in social support, solidarity, faith which refers to healing as pedagogical relation of exchanging experiences and learning.