Dor, sofrimento e luta: fazendo religião e política em contexto de violência = Dolor, sufrimiento y lucha : doing religion and politics in the context of violence

This article examines some modalities of imbrication between religion and violence at the context of violence lived in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.It discusses howcategories and religious practices have been experienced and mobilized by favelas dwellers victims of state violence to confront the discursiv...

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Subtitles:Dolor, sufrimiento y lucha
Main Author: Leite, Márcia Pereira (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:Portuguese
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Published: Asociación de Cientistas Sociales de la Religión del Mercosur 2013
In: Ciencias sociales y religión
Year: 2013, Volume: 15, Issue: 19, Pages: 31-47
Further subjects:B Metáfora de guerra
B Favera
B Dispositivos morales
B Rituales para el dolor
B Religión y política
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Summary:This article examines some modalities of imbrication between religion and violence at the context of violence lived in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.It discusses howcategories and religious practices have been experienced and mobilized by favelas dwellers victims of state violence to confront the discursive dispositives favela and favelado (those identify them with criminal environment andmarginality) and access public space seeking justice and moral repairing. It analyzes howthis confrontationworks ina specific case,studying howa murder of a favela dweller by military police has turnedhisfamily able toexpress suffering and indignation and to access a social andmoral repertoire linking political and juridical dimensions, in order to put stateviolence against population in public focus and charge the responsibles. Theirfight has been evolving the right to funeral homage and the repairing of moraldignity in rituals for pain in public space.
ISSN:1982-2650
Contains:Enthalten in: Ciencias sociales y religión
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.22456/1982-2650.44575