Permanências e rupturas: patrimônio, religiosidade e memória em Morro Redondo e Nova Petrópolis.

Abstract

This thesis was carried out based in a research of documental and bibliographical sources and, statements, describing historical aspects of two cities in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Morro Redondo city in the southern region and the highland city of Nova Petrópolis. Cities full of unique features and similarities related to many factors and influences, for instance, the religiosity, mainly Protestant Lutheran and its ethnicity, focused on German immigrant “germanity”. Through this case study it has been possible to analyze countless relevant moments in its historicity, turning out factors and variants, responsible for its characteristics. On the basis of these historical moments, it has been possible to see suppression, violence and fear, motivated, mainly by the Estado Novo policy and the Second World War. This study proposes a contextualization of the aforementioned facts, as well as a reflection on probable ruptures in the processes of valuing culture and traditions due to “fear”. In conclusion, this research enters into the collective memory aspects, as social construction, focused on the strong and inherent issue of both cities, the religion. It also refers the methods used by the communities in different moments of its existence that allowed the “patrimonial activation”, processes of patrimonialising, which granted its evolution towards the economic development through the cultural tourism.