A morte ao longo do caminho: reflexões da religiosidade popular presentes nas práticas mortuárias referentes às cruzes e memoriais de beira de estrada do interior paraibano

Abstract

The present work has as objective to make a reflection about popular religiosity that is expressed in the mortuary practices through crosses and memorials of roads in the hinterland of the state of Paraiba. It was analysed, in a historical perspective, the imaginary referring to death and how this is presented through the construction of these artefacts. For this, we observed the dynamics of popular religiosity in funeral rites through cultural and symbolic processes. We still observed the rituals of death in Brazil in the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries and the influence of modernity and the processes of urbanization imbricated with the context of funeral rituals.