Velhas devo es, novas devo es: media es e mudan as no cristianismo devocional contemporaneo / Old devotions, new devotions: mediations and changes in contemporary devotional Christianity

O artigo discute aspectos e características das chamadas novas devo es populares, buscando delimitar registros empíricos que permitam analisar continuidades e descontinuidades havidas nas experiências religiosas populares. Do escopo das mudan as, o autor aponta a importancia do reconhecimento e da análise das media es operadas no consumo da imagética religiosa, que se produzem no atual campo do pluralismo religioso. O princípio que opera tais media es se desdobra, nessa elabora o, como proposta de análise da produ o da santidade na experiência religiosa popular contemporanea. / The article discusses aspects and characteristics of the so called new popular devotions, seeking to delimit empirical records that permit to analyze continuities and discontinuities in popular religious experiences. From the scope of the changes, the author points out the importance of the recognition and analysis of mediations operated in the consumption of religious imagery, produced in the current field of religious pluralism. The principle that operates such mediation unfolds itself, in this formulation, as a proposal for analysis of the production of holiness in contemporary popular religious experience.