Navegando por Autor "PANTOJA, Vanda Maria Leite"

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Negócios sagrados: reciprocidade e mercado no Círio de Nazaré
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2006) PANTOJA, Vanda Maria Leite; MAUÉS, Raymundo Heraldo; http://lattes.cnpq.br/0915136632611666
This work discusses the organization of one of the larger saint’s Catholic feasts of Brazil: the Círio of Our Lady of Nazareth, in Belém, Pará. Using the Religious Market Paradigm and the Gift Theory, I propose to evaluate the celebration, taking as point of departure an analysis of the Diretoria da Festa, which is the institution that promotes the religious celebration. The purpose of this evaluation is to point out the convergence between the two theories. Throughout the work, I discuss the genesis and the expansion of the celebration, and the relation between the Diretoria da Festa and the devotees of Our Lady of Nazareth.
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Santos e Espírito Santo, ou católicos e evangélicos na Amazônia marajoara
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2011) PANTOJA, Vanda Maria Leite; MAUÉS, Raymundo Heraldo; http://lattes.cnpq.br/0915136632611666
The presence of Christian evangelicals in the Marajó Region of Integration is not recent; it dates from the turn of the 20th century, but only in the last two decades has there been what may be called an expansion of their presence. This expansion is evident from a statistical analysis of censuses of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics – IBGE, from 1991 and 2000 and from incursions in the field between 2005 and 2010. The increase in the number of evangelicals in a traditionally Catholic region has mobilized the Catholic Church into improving its performance in the local religious “marketplace”. To understand the fabric of the relationships between Catholics and evangelicals as well as between evangelicals and other evangelicals was the objective proposed in this research project. The field data indicates that the Catholic Church has used the advance of Pentecostalism in the region as an argument to effect some changes within its sphere, particularly in regards to the feasts of the saints, as much in the cities of Marajó as in the capital, Belém do Pará. On the other hand, the evangelicals have been working hard to affirm themselves as a strong religious group, and have concerned themselves, in market terms, much more with their “brothers” of other denominations than with the Catholic Church itself.