A carreira do presbítero: entre instituições, performances e disposições

Abstract

This study aims to understand the rites of institution in the career of the priest. Just as it holds the process of changing the representation of oriented, particularly in the pre-seminar over the first decade of this century in the Diocese of Pelotas Rio Grande do Sul. This is both the image and self-image that these young people are driven to take the route to the seminar. Moreover, another significant dimension is the analysis of the equity of provisions built into the clerical life in various networks of interactions, namely the family, school, religious universe itself. In addition, the change in the type of Catholicism practiced in Brazil helped redefine socially acceptable performances, especially in the investment in a more subjective religious experience in the vocation to the priesthood appear as an important confirmation of the axes of the dogmatic and theological framework of the Church. Therefore confined to the careers of three kinds of priests: The oriented with strong engagement in the Church who are called to a sacramental participation and those from other religions