Open AccessO habitus faz o monge - o Seminário de Olinda na encruzilhada pré-conciliar dos anos 1950 (esboço de estudo de caso)
Author(s) -
Gilvando Sá Leitão Rios
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
semina. ciências sociais e humanas
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1679-0383
pISSN - 1676-5443
DOI - 10.5433/1679-0383.2013v34n1p3
Subject(s) - habitus , sociology , humanities , silence , urbanism , celibacy , existentialism , context (archaeology) , ethnology , art , theology , anthropology , ethnography , political science , history , architecture , philosophy , archaeology , aesthetics , law
One of the aims of the present article is a self-analysis, with a complement of research sources, of an experience which was lived in the 1950s in the old Olinda Seminary. Such sociological self-analysis (as a memory study) is at a merely instrumental level, as long as the main objective of the article is to place the institution “seminary” in the historical-cultural context of the 1950s as a transitional period, both economical and cultural, not only in Brazil, in terms of industrialization and urbanism, but also in the post-war era in a broader sense. The article evidences three cultural traces in the tridentine seminary which express an opposition/differentiation in relation to the external world: the cultivation of silence, the cultivation of Latin and the cultivation of the existential isolation through celibacy. Such traces are analyzed especially in relation to the concept of the Bordieu habitus, as shapers of the social person.