Um estudo sobre a percepção e a vivência da hospitalidade no Santuário de Adoração Perpétua na cidade de Goiânia

Abstract

This article aims to analyze how the hospitality is perceived and experienced in Catholicism, studying the case of the Basílica Sagrada Família. It was investigated whether this place embodies this hospitable action, and in what way, based on the perspective of Marcel Mauss' gift. In order to achieve these objectives, documental research was first carried out encompassing the concepts of hospitality and gift, based on authors such as Mauss (2013), Boff (2005), Correia (2014). Following the ethnographic method of Lopez (1999), the case study was carried out using qualitative research, in the form of an interview with one of the priests responsible for the Sanctuary, and quantitative research with 56 forms applied to a group of faithful. The Participant observation was essential to enter the local environment and integrate the atmosphere of meanings, and conducted over 6 months. According to these analyses, we were able to conclude that the hospitality is lived in Catholicism as a prerogative of Christianity, and the welcoming based on listening and the availability of services is a fundamental characteristic of the Sanctuary, so that this hospitality is fully lived in the light of the sacred and anchored in the gift concept.