De lugar segregado ao lugar espiritual da Teologia da Libertação: Diocese de Nova Iguaçu de 1970 a 1990

Abstract

This research aims to understand the historical and geographical processes by which the spatial dimension of the Catholic Church in the current municipality of Nova Iguaçu, in the Baixada Fluminense, was structured as well as interpret the actions taken by the Catholic Church showing her managerial role in the development various social activities and religious.In this location, lacking in public policies initially favored in basic ecclesial communities to build important religious spaces, and subsequently were developed popular movements that helped in sociability and exchange of knowledge and practices. The actions carried out by the Liberation Theology and directed by the Diocese of Nova Iguaçu and the religious leader Don Adriano Hypólito enabled the expansion of public awareness regarding their rights and duties mainly expressed in the numerous claims for public and social services. The aim is then to understand the social structure of some areas of the Lowlands as well as uncover the strategies used by the Diocese of Nova Iguaçu in order to promote religious organization of its territory, through the dissemination of religious strategies. Such actions helped in strengthening the collective actions of the town, marking the history of the municipality of Nova Iguaçu and the Brazilian Catholic religious institution.