A festa de Sant’ana: espaço de religiosidade, sociabilidade e diversão na Cidade de Ponta Grossa - PR (1930-1965)

Abstract

The survey takes into account the importance of the most important popular religious party in the city of Ponta Grossa - PR, Feast of Sant’Ana. This party, which permeated the whole local society and was celebrated from the first half nineteenth century, is considered the largest religious celebration in the region. We work with the period appointed as Romanized, between 1930-1965. This period was marked by some changes in forms of so-called traditional Catholicism of Portuguese heritage, which has gradually been replaced by Roman Catholicism. From this agreement, we outlined the object of this research, which is linked to the relations between Church and society. We questioned about the scenario that the party led by means of power struggles in the management of the bishop, whose goal was to control, dominate and stop the profane practices and instill a Roman Catholicism in the city, since it was a national project. We established a significant importance of the Feast of Sant’Ana to the city of Ponta Grossa. We sought to reconstruct the memory of the community in regard to religion, sociability and fun. We understood that the party was a provileged space / time for the population religiosity, sociability and fun. We identified the continuities and the changes occurring between devotion and fun, due to romanization, ie to the changes. We investigated what were the main causes that led the general decline of the party. As a result of research we realized that, before any of them to leave the religious sphere consecrated by Roman Catholicism, the Church would claim the competence to accept them, tolerate them or abolish them. And through the sources analyzed, pastoral letters, newspapers, pamphlets, Book Tombo, and eleven interviewees, we understand that this process is mobile and the paths intersect at almost every moment of this manifestation of popular Ponta Grossa, the Feast of Sant 'Anna, patron saint. For a better understanding of the directions proposed, the research was oriented particularly by the studies of Bourdieu, Elias, Chartier, Certeau, among others. It also had, methodologically, as a system of work, the work of Content Analysis of Laurence Bardin.