Política e devoção na festa de nossa senhora da Conceição no Porto do Capim, João Pessoa (PB).

Abstract

The dissertation aims to discuss the relation between religious life, politics and struggle for territory in urban contexts from the study of the feast of NossaSenhora da Conceição, in the region so called Porto do Capim, in João Pessoa. Based on a procedural perspective, the dissertation describes the production of the feast in its material and symbolic relations with the Church, the State and Social Movements according the engagement of various subjects both in the feast and other spaces of interlocution and political disputes. Entered into a dispute context for their stay in an space occupied at least for six decades, residents of Porto do Capim are appropriating from the feast as a space for trading and exhibition of their demands, and consolidation of a memory as a specific group. Meanwhile, also setting games and arrangements through networking and partnership through the feast whose highest goal mobilization in favor of their stay in the territory.