O cemitério sem cruzes: cemitério campo da esperança da igreja assembleia de Deus em Xinguara - PA (1987-2020)

Abstract

This work aimed to analyze the field of cemetery studies, a field that has been studied a lot in recent years, this area of studies is very diverse in culture and a cultural-religious shock may still occur in this space. Therefore, the aim here is to demonstrate the variety of work done. Each work carries its own specificities, many times this field of study still generates strangeness and distance in people, but, at the same time, arouses curiosity when one begins to hear what it is about. In general, this study of seminal works together with the survey of the local cemetery Campo da Esperança, have these characteristics in common: the hierarchy of space, symbols, rites, religiosity, secularization, among others. With this, we can analyze the richness of these spaces and the importance they have for history and the strong connection with the memory that products and the representativeness they have. I titled the work “The cemetery without crosses” because there are no crosses in any grave, it can be analytically noticed that religion has a repudiation of this symbol in the field of death, but at the same time the use of another kind of symbol that are the photographs used in the tombs does the church know the origin of the photographs in cemeteries? For that, bibliographic research was used as a method for data collection, I used books, articles, also images and documents. The results I obtained were satisfactory given the problems raised. The biggest challenge was to build everything from scratch since there is not even a legal document that proves the existence of the Campo da Esperança cemetery. Finally, through the whole study, it was possible to realize the importance of this cemetery for the pastor and the church, and also, the concept that was created around a symbol considered to be Christian within a Christian space.