A festa dos pequenos: um estudo sobre a Romaria da Terra na Arquidiocese da Paraíba

Abstract

This work aims to study the Pilgrimage of the Earth as a Ritual event, held in the archdiocese of Paraíba and organized by the Pastoral Land Commission (CPT), team of the diocese João Pessoa. We had as field of study the phenomenon of the 29th Pilgrimage of the land that was held on October 7 and 8, 2017, starting in the City of Pilar and arriving in the City of São Miguel de Taipu. The Earth Pilgrimage is a political-religious event that reveals the land and land situation that society is experiencing. The public that compose it are especially farmers (settlers and campers), who use the space to protest, contest, denounce, celebrate and publish situations, in relation to land / agrarian issues, as well as the participation of other pastoral and social movements , nuns, religious groups and laity who sympathize with the struggle for land. The motivation and sacredness of the Earth's Pilgrimage is the word of God and the journey towards the final place, symbolized by the promised land, feeds faith, utopia in the perspective of reaching more prosperous days. We draw as a theoretical reference the conceptions of: (PEIRANOS, 2003), (TURNER, 2008), (DURKHEIM, 1989), (RUFINO, 2006), (ARRUTI, 2006), (MOREIRA, 1997), among others. allowed to understand the ritual phenomenon of the Earth's Pilgrimage. The methodology used was applied through ethnography, semi-structured interviews, and participant research, as well as informal conversations with farmers.