Turismo religioso: análise das políticas governamentais e ações eclesiais no monumento de Uruaçu em São Gonçalo do Amarante-RN

Abstract

The research considers the importance of tourism in the range of the politics, economics e sociocultural areas and has the objective of comprehending the governmental and ecclesial politics in support of the religious tourism at the Monumento dos Mártires de Uruaçu, in São Gonçalo do Amarante – RN. Based on an assumption of a governmental and ecclesial political process in which different groups use distinct strategies in support of the production and distribution of a symbolic capital, in that experts of the sacred, lays and political reps tap a belief, and the its practices, to strengthen power structures in different specific areas of acting. This work used the qualitative methodology, postulated by the historical and bibliographic documents concerned about the studies of religious tourism. The phenomenological approach was privileged, using half structuralized interviews which were performed with governmental, religious reps and residents. The research’s results show that the Government and the Catholic Church act together in an expanding process of a religious tourism as a way to promote the local development and the dissemination of the catholic faith.