Symbolic landscapes: popular catholicism and the myth of the “Green Flags” in the Pilgrimage of the “Lord of Bonfim” in Araguacema, Tocantins

Authors

  • José Rodrigues Carvalho Universidade Federal de Goiás

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7147/GEO16.5843

Keywords:

Symbolic landscape, Sacred space, Popular catholicism

Abstract

This text aims to show the relationship between the religion and the landscape, based on the myth of the “Green Flags” in the imaginary of Popular Catholicism, which created and keeps the “Lord of Bonfim” pilgri-mage, in Araguacema, Tocantins. We discuss the topic Religion and landscape from data obtained in field work in the perspective of humanistic cultural geography. The Pilgrimage’s landscape holds a number of symbols that represent a universe of meanings of popular catholicism in a game that establishes the rela-tionship between the living area and memories, in which the images take the place of straight perceptions.

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Author Biography

José Rodrigues Carvalho, Universidade Federal de Goiás

Bacharel e Licenciado Pleno em Geografia pela Universidade Federal do Pará-UFPA e mestrando em Geografia pela Universidade Federal de Goiás - UFG.

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Published

07-07-2014

How to Cite

CARVALHO, José Rodrigues. Symbolic landscapes: popular catholicism and the myth of the “Green Flags” in the Pilgrimage of the “Lord of Bonfim” in Araguacema, Tocantins. Geografares, Vitória, Brasil, n. 16, p. 141–167, 2014. DOI: 10.7147/GEO16.5843. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufes.br/geografares/article/view/5843. Acesso em: 9 jan. 2025.

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No. 16 (2014): Geografares (Janeiro-junho)

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