Abstract:
This work is an analysis of Brazilian Nursery Folk Songs aiming to discover the
presence of the sacred in their texts. In the first part the elements of the following
conjunctive concepts are examined: the Religious Experience of the Child, the
Religious Potential of the Child, Infant faith, the Sacred, the Profane, Infant Religious
Symbols and the Image of God. The second part is an analysis of the texts of the
repertory of Nursery Folk Songs on the basis of an association between the above
mentioned conjunctive concepts and the words / expressions employed in the 60 folk
songs selected. In the third and last part a tripartite taxonomy is proposed, taken from
the analysis itself, and with it, the author returns to the songs, seeking to answer to
what measure the sacred is present in the text of the Brazilian Nursery Folk Songs.
