POPULAR RELIGIOSITY, SAINTS, SORCERERS AND WITCHES: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY IN LIGEIRO - PARAÍBA

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  • Eliane Cordeiro Sanchez Martin Martin
  • Maristela Oliveira de Andrade

Abstract

This paper results from an ethnographic fieldwork carried out in Ligeiro – Paraíba, in a rural community loyal to a typical popular model of religiosity caractherized by beliefs multiplicity as well as magical and religious practices. To expose this religious and magical local universe, the report was done with resident’s speeches, dividing them into three fields or spheres: the religious, whose major expression is the faith in saints and miracles, the magic-religious one, through faith on quackers’ healing rites, and the magical, through demands to witchers and local sorcerers (catimbozeiros, pais-de-santo). It was realized at the end of the research that ligeirenses’ popular religiosity is caractherized by keeping on the frontier of these religious experience spheres, composing new forms of being a Catholic.

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2016-12-22

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MARTIN, Eliane Cordeiro Sanchez Martin; DE ANDRADE, Maristela Oliveira. POPULAR RELIGIOSITY, SAINTS, SORCERERS AND WITCHES: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY IN LIGEIRO - PARAÍBA. Religare, [S. l.], v. 7, n. 2, 2016. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufpb.br/index.php/religare/article/view/9784. Acesso em: 27 jun. 2026.

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