A hospitalidade, sob a ótica do romeiro, na Romaria ao Santuário de Nossa Senhora de Caravaggio - Farroupilha/RS e seu corolário no universo conceitual de turismo religioso

Abstract

The peregrinations and pilgrimages are being object of studies under different perspectives among which are the religious tourism and the hospitality. It is in this context that the present study is situated bringing up for reflection the hospitality relationships in the Pilgrimage to the Sanctuary of Nossa Senhora de Caravaggio – Farroupilha/RS under the pilgrim’s point of view. This is a religious practice, culturally established, which has been done for more than a century and which takes place yearly and mobilizes thousands of people in each edition. It receives not only the town’s residents, but also people from all over the state of Rio Grande do Sul and even people from other states in Brazil. The Pilgrimage to Caravaggio also spans a wide welcoming structure promoting personal, social and institutional interactions. On this sense, in a theoretic context for which converges concepts of spirituality and religiousness, religious tourism and hospitality have as their objective to identify and analyze, via speech, signs of hospitality relationships under the pilgrim’s point of view and to synthesize in a way to interpret the emergent relationships of this analysis. The development of the research, in a qualitative overriding feature and with methodological procedures drawn from a hermeneutical approach embraced semi-structured interviews with participants of the 2012 Pilgrimage to the Sanctuary of Caravaggio. Trough analysis techniques of content and from analysis of enunciative marks the interviewees’ responses were categorized and fragmented. The discursive results point, in which refers to hospitality, for a predominance of bounded aspects to the socio-administrative planning and the organization of the Pilgrimage followed by the socio-human relationships that effect on it. These results were still analyzed establishing bounds with the subjects’ manifestations related to the purposes which led them for wanting to go to Caravaggio, the experience related to the participation in the event, as well as the highlights about the Pilgrimage, which would be given to further and occasional pilgrim – which enabled, with the support of empiric subsidies, to contribute to a different theoretic perspective on the concepts of peregrination/pilgrimage and religious tourism.