O mito de Chico Xavier : os usos, apropriações e seduções do simbólico em Uberaba/MG

Abstract

The research is a result of the questions made around the implicit symbols in the image of the medium Chico Xavier, starting in the places used and appropriated for him in the spread of Christian Spiritism in Uberaba/MG. It has as objetive to define the contents in the created places for this kind of religion involving the person of the medium that consists in understanding the processes of sacred places, even after his death. The central topic of this research is the figure of myth. It takes as fundamental focus of analysis some writers of places and we change the same anallysis of social and sacred places, procedure shared with different social sciences. After analysing the structures, the forms and the contents of the analysis of place, we emphasize the processes of social organization until we reach the real position of the people who continue the work of myth and the organizations, there is, the appropriate place, like: the house, the museum, the book shop, the spiritual center, the assistential group and even the mausoleum. Thus, is was possible to decode the places from the uses and appropriations established by the medium and his public demostrating the social practices in the structure of Spiritism. However, it is evident the image of myth, we try to analyse the legacy of the medium and in his followers, besides the forms of appropriations of these places and of the spread of his teaching.