Territorialities of the Pentecostal Religious Field: The Case of the Residencial Vista Bela / Londrina (Pr)

Abstract

As a response to the emerging discussion of the pentecostal religiosity in contemporary Brazil, the work that follows borns as an attempt to contribute to the following question: which instruments are used to produce the religious territory in geographical space of a local reality? For such, it was developed a methodological procedure that started from a delimitable spacial portion that reflects the brazilian sociospatial inequality in certain way as a study case in which this works proposes to discuss: the Residencial Vista Bela, in the Londrina (PR) county. drawing a starting line in the early 20th century, it's possible to attest the emergence of pentecostalism responded to a social exclusion historical condition. The residential locates northeast portion of the Londrina urban perimeter, on Perobinha neighbourhood. It's a region with very little ocupation, generally by country houses and some empty lots destined to the city's industrial expansion. beyond that, the distance of the urban area brought forth countless issues to the region as the crowding of schools and health centers that started to receive buses with the new residents as a mitigation measure of the municipal government at the time of the delivery of the first houses. With an important educational, socializer role, and many times also social, economic and political problems mitigator that involve the local coexistence, the religious institution prints its brands in the shape of cult, which was observed throughout the research that follows.