A mística do tempo: narrativas sobre os mortos na região do Cariri/CE

Abstract

This thesis studies the narratives concerning the apparitions and the passage of the dead among the terrene world, and the Christian after-life in the modern world. It problematizes the narrative ways and focus built in the oral memory of old, catholic people resident in the urban and rural spaces of the cearense Cariri, in the Northwest of Brazil. Developed according to reflections on the history of religious beliefs, this work dialogues with memory, imaginary and sensible concepts. This research was built according to the historical oral use, understood as the art of relations and listening. As central hypothesis this study indicates that the narratives about the presence of the dead in the terrene world and their route in the after-life takes as reference the interpretations about the Christian times, beaconed between the experience of the terrene life, the enunciation forms of the eternal and the mysteries of continuity of life across the beyond once life is comprehended as a passage. In these terms, the ways and narrative focus represent constructions of terrene temporalities and revelations of eternal time that hierarchize the dead, providing them punishment, exemplarity and lessons that affect both the dead and the living.