O que a “semana muda” nos diz sobre Brasília de Minas?: memórias, vivências e experiências católicas dos brasilminenses nas décadas de 1960 – 1990

Abstract

This research analyzes the lives and experiences of residents of the city of Brasília de Minas based on their oral narratives about "Semana Muda" - the way some Brasília de Minas residents called Holy Week. In narrating their religious experiences, we understand that the residents also relate a set of experiences that constitute the sense of being from Brasília Minas, of what it is like to live in the city. For this research, we will mainly use the theoretical discussions of Michel de Certeau. His perspective, when approaching cultural practices, considers how such actions impose new, unexpected logics on social organization. We can think about how Holy Week imposes this in Brasília de Minas in the dynamics of occupying space, in the role of some groups in organizing events both related to the Church and outside. Certeaunian considerations in this sense are consistent with our process of analysis, since we understand the importance of analyzing Holy Week not only in its religious sense, but beyond it. We will use oral accounts of the residents of Brasília de Minas as sources, understanding that the act of interviewing in Oral History presupposes a dialog in which the historian must understand the meanings of what is narrated.