Tempos de difusão da igreja católica na formação de territórios religiosos na Região Centro-Oeste

• Autor(a) principal: Andrade, Lidiane Mota de
• Data de Publicação: 2008
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/13408
• topic: Religious territory; Religious territoriality; Diffusion of dioceses; Region Center-West; Território religioso; Territorialidade religiosa; Difusão de dioceses; Região Centro-Oeste; CNPQ::CIENCIAS EXATAS E DA TERRA::GEOCIENCIAS

In Human Territoriality. Its theory and History (1986), Sack recognizes the Catholic Church as an important religious, cultural institution, economic politics and, with world-wide performance. In this way, the analysis of the interventions of the same one on the geographic space becomes pressing in the developed study is distinguished, in special, the catholic performance in the constitution of its religious territories in the Brazilian region Center-West. From the moment that we analyze the Catholic Institution as an agent modeler of the space, influenced by practical strategies and proper location logics, ways for the development of the concepts of religious territory and religious territoriality, understood as consequences of the rational performance of the sacred one. The work that follows aims at to analyze the abovementioned concepts promoting an interface with the performance of the Institution in the constitution of its resultant territories, varying, thus, in the scale space-time. In this way, it fits to think that the Catholic Institution half establishes a management of its territories constituting powerful of organization of its space, making possible creation and the control of the same. The proposal of the work that follows is to present, influenced for the theoreticianconceptual analyses, the process of diffusion of the religious territories, the creation of the Brazilian dioceses, in special in the object of detached study contributing for imposition of a territorial-religious standard aiming at the hegemony, the maintenance and the expansion of its territories.