No aconchego da vila: religiosidade, simbolismo e devoção na Vila Mimosa

Abstract

The present research aims to understand the phenomenon of protection and devotion in Vila Mimosa, one of the largest prostitution zones in the city of Rio de Janeiro. This region has as one of its trademarks the busy nights and the wide movement of people in search of pleasure, drink and music. However, attention is drawn to the number of religious symbols in the pubs of Vila Mimosa and their organizations and arrangements in the houses, from paintings of paintings or walls of saints to carrancas and seeds of Mucunã, better known as bull's eye. This work is intended to grasp the sense of protection through religious symbols, as well as devotion through the saints and tattoos of saints. Throughout this work an ethnographic research was carried out in Vila Mimosa, with the purpose of trying to understand how the different dynamics of the religious in Vila Mimosa space are related, what agents and actors are activated to guarantee the order and protection of the place. Faced with aspects that blend protection and religiosity, the presence of devotional signs in the region open the possibility of thinking about the action of the religious in a non-institutionalized space, as is the case of pubs in Vila Mimosa.