RELIGIÃO NA LITERATURA DE CORDEL ANÁLISE DA RELIGIOSIDADE POPULAR DO NORDESTE BRASILEIRO

Authors

  • Carlos Ribeiro Caldas Filho

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.19176/rct.v0i52.14959

Keywords:

Religion and literature, folk literature, folk religiosity

Abstract

The present essay has as its basic theoretical presupposition that thereis an epistemological value in literature, in order to study theology and religionas well. Therefore, the goal of this essay is to present the religious andtheological elements that can be found in folk literature of Brazilian Northeast.Besides, this essay intends to present also the theological contents of thisfolk literature, known as “literatura de cordel”.