O turismo e a busca de sentido: a hospitalidade nos bastidores das peregrinações católicas

Abstract

This study aims to understand the meaning of the institutional reception in a Catholic place of peregrination (Sanctuary Our Lady of the Rosary of Fatima, Portugal) aiming to identify the intra-cultural actions of hospitality performed to build the Christiancatholic identity in the contemporary pilgrim. In order to do that, it discusses by means of reflection about the meaning in the touristic displacement by means of the reflection about the search by meaning, the meaning of hospitality and of intracultural actions. It examinates the mystical nature of contemporary catholic peregrinations, differentiating them from the traditional religious tourism and deals with the main aspects of the social-human planning of Catholicism, in tourism, by means of the positions published by the Pastoral of Tourism, in order to make them accessible to current Technical-scientific studies. The study identifies and analyzes the meaning of hospitality in the Sanctuary of Fatima, Portugal and of its intra-cultural actions, by means of documents from the archives of the Sanctuary and of interviews made with representatives of all services that administratively constitute the pastoral and organic life of the Sanctuary of Fatima. The discursive textual analysis (MORAES; GALLIAZZI, 2016), elected as method, allowed the appropriation and analysis of the “corpus” of the research, divided into two groups: a) documents of the Catholic Church and of the Sanctuary of Fatima about tourism and peregrinations; b) the interviews with the managers of the Sanctuary Our Lady of the Rosary of Fatima, in Portugal. From those narratives were born the following analytical categories: Place of Peregrination and Meaning; Human, Pastoral and Spiritual Reception; hosting to live the message of Fatima and the Theological Meaning in Intra-cultural Actions of Hospitality. The conclusion is that there is a set of Receptioning Attitudes, by the Sanctuary, propitiating to any visitor conditions valuing the human dignity, with physical and psychological care shared with the visitors, which are not made in order to just contemplate the participants of a same creed or culture. However, those aptitudes of Reception of the Sanctuary of Fatima exist for a greater finality, which may only be found with the perception of those gestures having a factor of Meaning uniting them.