Vida religiosa ribeirinha: um estudo sobre a Igreja Católica e Evangélica no Amazonas

Abstract

The history of recent occupation of the Amazon is directly related to religious cultures meet, socially sustained by the material and spiritual worlds separate, lived defining ethos. It is worth mentioning Christianity as a major religious movements in the region introduced the principle of Catholicism and later by Protestantism. It s possible to see the influence that the church had on the lives of residents, becoming the family after one of the most important social institutions and acting field today remains in the process of forming new communities, playing practical messianic evangelization and colonization. Between the coastal communities of Jaiteua de Cima, Manacapuru / AM, are the churches (evangelical and Catholic) that define the socio-political space, because the process of implementation of these churches on the site is directly related to the history of the formation of social communities Nossa Senhora do Perpetuo Socorro and Assembleia de Deus. Are the churches on the site that occupy the central space, so that study on religious life deserves to be a phenomenon that modifies symbolically the political, social, spatial and temporal perception among coastal communities. The characteristics of these changes are more visible, for example, the construction of churches and creating a space for the patron saint, the replacement of the companion to use the term "peace of the Lord", the importance level for a family to another, types of leisure activities such as soccer practice with more or less intensity. Therefore, the religious life works as one of the most important assurance mechanisms of power between families in that it brings together and dominate the community, thus becoming a symbolic power. We want this work to analyze the mode of occupation of these religious communities from the perspective of sociological theories of Max Weber, Emile Durkheim, Peter Berger, Pierre Bourdieu, Heraldo Maues and Gedeon Alencar. Show the possibility of comparing the theoretical model constructed by the authors with the observation pointed to empirical reality.