RT Article
T1 Pentecostalism and the Urban Landless Movement: Political Struggle and Spiritual Battle in Uberlândia, Brazil
JF PentecoStudies
VO 17
IS 1
SP 77
OP 94
A1 Swatowiski, Claudia Wolff
A2 Barbosa, Luciano Senna Peres
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1663571163
AB This article addresses the connection between Pentecostalism and a movement of people who had occupied urban land in an effort to gain legal residence. Based on an investigation of the "Ocupação Glória" land settlement in the city of Uberlândia, Brazil, we analyse the ways in which demands for the right to housing are associated with Pentecostal dynamics and cosmologies. We examine how Pentecostals contribute to a movement to legalize unauthorized settlements in urban space, and establish an overlapping of political struggle and spiritual battle. We also investigate how the practices of evangelical churches in the "Ocupação Glória" at times work in juxtaposition and at times in opposition to other modalities of the social movement that operate in the settlement.
K1 Brazil; Socio-economic conditions
K1 Movimento dos Trabalhadores Sem Teto (Brazil)
K1 Pentecostal churches; Brazil
K1 Politics and Christianity; Pentecostalism
K1 Spiritual life (Christianity); Pentecostalism
K1 Squatter settlements
K1 Uberlândia (Minas Gerais, Brazil)
K1 Peer reviewed
DO 10.1558/ptcs.34877