El bien morir, la memoria y la fiestala procesión del Santo entierro y el rostro de la muerte en Semana Santa de Salvador/Bahía 1889/1910

Abstract

The aim is to study the relationships that were built in the nineteenth century Bahian society from the constant presence of death and of cultural, political and social elements that made the formation of identities and daily practices as historical representatives of the social imaginary Brazil (Salvador) through analysis of the variation of the concepts belonging to the feeling at the death by Catholic people through the Procession of the Holy Burial (Easter). Research chose the documentary analysis of institutional books of the Catholic Church, and newspaper accounts of travelers in the province of Salvador from 1889 to 1910. The hypothesis states that investigations into the death in the particular field of religion found in the procession a political function of religiosity of integrative way to act as a mechanism of social control. Keywords: Death. Popular Religiosity. Fiestas. Procession of the Holy Burial. Memory.