O que não falar quer dizer: uma etnografia de silêncio ritualizado

Abstract

The practice of silence is presented in religious contexts of various strands and also non-religious that spread the importance or benefit of silencing. This work looks to investigate the meaning of silence and its implication in the religious and secular spheres in order to ascertain a relation between the silence and the social order of modernity. The proposal is based on a study undertaken on a catholic ritual of silence that includes the act of not speaking accompanied by an intense listening, especially of a discourse of formative quality that makes the word heard an element to be apprehended. Distancing oneself from cities may reflect the will of the individual to be far from the great human agglomerations, diversity or homogeneity in series that are experienced in many different ways by the subjects; but also it could be a reflection of solitude in the midst of the mass, of a crisis of the self before a society that produces disturbances.