Libertação, carisma e conflito: uma análise da luta pela hegemonia na Paróquia de São Pedro de Vidigueiras - Teresópolis

Abstract

This work intends to analyze the relationships of power established inside a Catholic community: the Parish of São Pedro de Vidigueiras, located in the city of Teresópolis, Highland Area of Rio de Janeiro. To reach such an objective I accomplish participant observation, comparative analyses and discussion with classic authors that approach the subject of the power, mainly Gramsci, Foucault, Bourdieu and Balandier. I understand the power as a social relationship. In the power´s relationships the social actors look for the construction of the hegemony (established consensus for the ideological diffusion) and/or exercise of the dominance (coercion for the violence). The conflicts in the religious field, at least with respect to the community scale, they possess characteristic elements: the creation of symbols, myths, rituals, maintenance or redefinition of the collective memory and of world conceptions, the establishment of alliance nets etc. Therefore, it is done necessary the study of the speeches and of the you practice nuns of the subjects and constituent groups of the community, and of the mechanisms used by the same ones for the construction of the hegemony.