Educação e devoção: lições da memória e aprendizagens da renovação no Sítio Serra da Minguiriba

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the correlations between education, spiritual devotion and community ethics in the process of cultural and social formation in the Community of Sítio Serra da Minguiriba from the ritual of celebration of the Renewal of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, in order to observe the role of collective memory in the existence and resistance of the community in Araripe Plateau. The research was conducted in two phases. In the first one, I talked to 18 members of the community. In the second phase, I interviewed 36 descendants of the founding families, in addition to participating in conversation circles, community events and accompanying, observing and participating in life in Minguiriba. I used documentary, bibliographic sources and in loco observation of the most important ritual of the community: The Renewal of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. This study is based on the paradigm of complexity, on the interface between, community education, devotion, collective memory and social learning from the perspective of Edgar Morin (2011, 2018, 2019), Halbwachs (2006) and Candau (2011, 2018,2019), Halbwachs (2006) and Candau (2011). The results obtained allowed us to observe that the people of Minguiriba get educated and resist the challenges of living in the semi-arid region from a community ethic that is sustained and propagated in socialization in the interaction between people of the community established in the precepts of discipline, honor, prayer, work, sharing and care for each other. The ritual of the Renewal of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, as a cultural tradition, joins the people of the Minguiriba community and teaches them to live in community, beyond the limits of the religious. It helps in coping with political-social difficulties, which necessarily implies undoing the banal conception that a religious ritual is limited only to the interest of the faith of those who practice it. It is constituted as a formation capable of refreshing the historical roots of the community, strengthening the identity and the individual and collective memory of the group.