The Marian model highlights female behaviors as submission, humility, generosity. Such behaviors make up the , however there are others possibilities to counter this power through a (Bourdieu 2003). Beside this perspective, we emphasize that mother's love can not be understood with emphasis on domination. There is a encompassing and larger symbolic order closer to Christian agape (Mayblin 2010) that can be interpreted as idea-value of maternal love (Dumont 2000). This order directs the actions of individuals. Authors discuss to what extent and which the limits of thinking marianism as a breack from the male order are.
Catholicism; marianism; feminism; Juazeiro do Norte