Emancipação e submissão por meio da religião? histórias de vida no Presídio da Polícia Militar “Romão Gomes”

• Autor(a) principal: Andery, Maria Carolina Rissoni
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/18843
• topic: Policia Militar; Presídio da Polícia Militar “Romão Gomes”; Identidade; Military Police; “Romão Gomes” Military Police Prison; Identity; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA::PSICOLOGIA SOCIAL

In times where violence is increasing in the big urban centers and the Police (in São Paulo's State there are two police organizations, the Polícia Militar and the Poíicia Civil, in this dissertation will be discussed the administrative police that is the Polícia Militar), Brazilian violence restraining state institution, is being recurrently questioned, be it due to its violence, the violence suffered by the attacks of gangs or due to discussions about its operation and appearance, it is important to note and query the existence of a prison intended for its members. In the State of São Paulo, where the research was performed, there are many controversies, criticizing mainly the existence of this institution and its consequences on such an individualist society. By the advent of modernity, the relations are more fluid, there is the pluralism, and following, meaning crisis at which new responses are sought even in old institutions such as religion. Just as São Paulo State’s Police (Polícia Militar), religion is questioned as an institution and we witness this mainly through syncretism, responses to social situations regarding religiosity and socio-cultural processes. At the “Romão Gomes” Military Police Prison, syncretism is evident once there are many religious manifestations and many inmates attend various cults which are not necessarily from the same religion. Due to this possibility and due to the fact that religion is part of the identity policy of the place, this research’s objective was to comprehend the importance and sense given to religion by many inmates. From theoretical discussions, participation in cults and narratives of the inmate’s life stories, it was revealed that there is metamorphosis and emancipation possibilities, which do not occur automatically, but in the process of sense creation and submission to religion