Hospitalidade e experiência em eventos religiosos

Abstract

Permeated by faith events are one of the main causes of human displacement in the world. These events, linked to a religious belief, are instruments of legitimization of hospitality in today’s society, as it influences and shapes the behavior of countless people. Religions indicate hospitality, welcoming the other, the visitor, the foreign and the vulnerable as an innate condition for their believers. In Christianity, in particular, this hospitality is also a duty, and through its events there's a way to bring people close to each other. Specifically, from the Second Vatican Council (1961-65) onwards, the Catholic Church opened its doors for the lay believers to assume ministerial roles, found communities and assist in the evangelization, with the emergence of New Communities (NC) to, through its daily activities and events, bring it closer to the people. The objective is to analyze how the hospitality in religious events that feature tourist flow produces significant experiences. The phenomenology was used as a method to treat a multiple case study with descriptive and exploratory characteristics and a qualitative approach. In a universe of 29 NC, registered in the Archdiocese of Natal/RN, it was decided, based on pre-established criteria, for two and one event of each, determining how research agents, organizers, collaborators and participants. The data collection was carried out through bibliographical and documentary research, through participant observation, data mining online through social network Instagram, interview and focus group based on semistructured scripts. In data analysis, the description of the cases in chronological order of occurrence of the facts was combined with content analysis. This was assisted by software Reshape, for the transcription of oral content to transform it into corpus, submit them to Iramuteq and, finally, elaborate the Ideas Association Maps through the MindMaster. For the analysis of the on-line data mining, the help of the categories and criteria adapted from Alves et al (2022) was used with the purpose to create Narrative Lines via Pictorchart. The results were presented according to the experiences of each investigated agent in the stages of operationalization of events. It is reported that the organizers and collaborators are treated by servants. In the pre-event, the hospitality shapes the experience of the servants based on the desire to prepare the welcoming of the other to evangelize them, while the potential public’s experience is formed by expectation, fed by the spiritual aspect and information that end up being exposed by the communities through that period. In the event it was identified that, for the servants, the hospitality exercise is linked to offering material conditions to welcome the other unconditionally, meanwhile, for the participants, is linked to perceiving the actions of the event on its totality. In the post-event, the experience becomes meaningful for the servants as it aligns itself with the faith, the human actions and materials in order to welcome the other; and, for the participants, in the joint assimilation of what was offered. It is possible to conclude that both logics of functioning os hospitality, the conditional/commercial and the unconditional, need to work together to achieve meaningful experiences in religious events, suggesting that, as they present tourist flow, the inventory is implemented for cataloging and dissemination with the trade in order to increase the offer of attractions and promote new styles of touristic practice.