A romaria virtual de Nazaré

Resumo (EN)

The research aims to understand the relationship between communication and religion taking as reference the mediatization of “Círio de Nazaré”. The problem of the research concerns about which cultural changes of this traditional religious ritual (pilgrimage of “Círio de Nazaré”) suffers when incorporated by digital culture. It was adopted as hypothesis that the values of this traditional religious ritual change when they suffer the virtualization process. Migration to cyberspace does not imply the end of the concrete experience, but paradoxically, mediatization implies the emptying of meaning of communication links. The sense of belonging and participation is uncharacterized in the context of virtual participation. The objective is to analyze the traditional ritual of “Círio de Nazaré” and how this religious party is adapted to the virtual environment: the site Círio, the official Facebook page and applications for mobile devices - "Círio application" and "Kd a berlinda?" which were adopted as the research corpus. We go through two methodological phases to investigate the issue: the first phase of research was bibliographic and exploratory in order to understand the “Círio de Nazaré” and its mediatization process. The concepts of link, mediatization, intersection between media and religion, cyber-religion were based on Alves (2005), Figueiredo (2005), Baitello Jr. (2012), Contrera (2010), Puntel (2008) , Miklos (2000), among others. The second phase focused on the data collection on the site, Facebook and applications. With these features, the relevance of the research is justified by the contribution to the field of study of the intersections between Media and Religion from a necessarily tension point of view, more insightful and dense, within this thematic field.