The altar as a performance in popular religiosity

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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2022.185817

Keywords:

Altars, Performances, Folia de Reis, Popular Religiosity

Abstract

This article presents the altar as a place from which emanate performances visualized in symbols, actions, gestures arising from religious practice. With an eye turned to popular religiosity, the experiences of Folias de Reis stand out in order to provide reflection on the performances of the altar. In the light of studies in Cultural Performances, the emphasis given to gestures, sounds, images and tunes enable reflections on the performativity revealed in the dynamic materiality of the altar, which remain alive in different contexts. The altars are configured, therefore, as a place of the sacred that highlights the set of synesthetic qualities of the various performances involved in them or before them; including those constituted by its simple materiality and presence.

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Author Biographies

  • Daniela Oliveira dos Santos, Universidade Federal de Goiás

    Daniela Oliveira dos Santos is a PhD student in Cultural Performances - Universidade Federal de Goiás (2020-2024) with ongoing research on the Divine Office of Communities. She has a Masters in Arts from the Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (2012) and took a specialization course in Christian Liturgy at the Jesuit College (FAJE – 2018 to 2019). She holds a degree in Artistic Education with Major in Music from the Universidade Federal de Uberlândia. She has been a music teacher at the Instituto Federal de Goiás - Campus Itumbiara since 2011. She is interested in research in the fields of Popular Catholicism, Catholic Rites and Liturgical Music. E-mail: danielaoliveira@ufg.edu.br

  • Sebastião Rios, Universidade Federal de Goiás

    Sebastião Rios is a professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences and at the Graduate Program in Cultural Performances at the Universidade Federal de Goiás. Associate researcher at the Center for African Studies at the Eduardo Mondlane University (Mozambique) and collaborator at the ZentralinstitutfürLateinamerikastudien at the Catholic University of Eichstätt (Germany). Doctor in Sociology from UnB / University of Innsbruck, Austria (1998), Master in Literature (1993) and Bachelor in History from UnB (1987). He works in the areas of Brazilian Society and Culture, Brazilian Literature, Music and Society, Popular Culture / Intangible Heritage, with several records of Folias de Reis and Congados on CDs and videos. E-mail: sebastiaorios@gmail.com

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Published

2022-08-30

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Vol. 7 No. 1 (2022)

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Dossier Religions (Articles)

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Santos, Daniela Oliveira dos, and Sebastião Rios. 2022. “The Altar As a Performance in Popular Religiosity”. GIS - Gesture, Image and Sound - Anthropology Journal 7 (1): e185817. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2022.185817.