De tradição e modernidade: o campo religioso em transformação no meio rural de Viçosa-MG, na contemporaneidade

• Autor(a) principal: Almeida, Adriano Carlos de
• Data de Publicação: 2009
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: LOCUS Repositório Institucional da UFV
• Texto Completo: http://locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/4115
• topic: Sociologia rural; População rural; Aspectos religiosos; Rural sociology; Rural population; Religious aspects; CNPQ::CIENCIAS AGRARIAS::AGRONOMIA::EXTENSAO RURAL

In this study we sought to understand the relationship between the changes in religious manifestations in rural Brazilian in times of high-modernity, and the social, economical and productive transformations that characterize the emergence of the so called new ruralities. For this cause we tried to perceive which way and how far the religious manifestations in the rural areas of the local municipality of Viçosa found to be connected to the transformations in the areas of jobs and income. More and more it is possible to see that job and occupation dynamics that show up in the profile of owners moves away from the common characteristics of traditions field work. The income sources of the interviewed families are from activities traditionally found in the rural environment, such as agriculture and cattle-raising, but by traditional urban jobs. In the same manner we find the presence of "neo-rural" groups in the rurality profile of Viçosa. Residents in the field that come from the city look for a simpler life in a rural environment, and naturally give meaning to this rural world. When we put our attention in the characteristics referring to the religious field in the studied communities, it was notable that its dynamics is characterized by a strong connection with the urban world. There is a plurality of religious denominations in the rural area of the local municipality of Viçosa. We verified a majority of Catholics, but a considerable number of historical Protestants, Pentecosts, Saint Daime followers, as well as interviewed those that declared no religion. Nevertheless, such considerations do not imply affirmations in distinctions of specific identities of rural areas in relation to urban, but that the rural rebuilds and is re-defined inside a global dynamic keeping rhythms and differentiated forms of absorption that give it a specific dynamic character. From this perspective, we cannot talk about rurality conditions other than these conjectural transformations neither stop protecting that such processes are constantly marked by the undeniable weight that traditions give them.