Pentecostalism and the Urban Landless Movement: Political Struggle and Spiritual Battle in Uberlândia, Brazil
This article addresses the connection between Pentecostalism and a movement of people who had occupied urban land in an effort to gain legal residence. Based on an investigation of the "Ocupação Glória" land settlement in the city of Uberlândia, Brazil, we analyse the ways in which demands...
| Published in: | PentecoStudies |
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| Authors: | ; |
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
Equinox Publ.
[2018]
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| In: |
PentecoStudies
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Uberlândia
/ City
/ Public space
/ Orchestration
/ Decriminalization
/ Social movement
/ Pentecostal churches
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| RelBib Classification: | CH Christianity and Society KBR Latin America KDG Free church KDH Christian sects ZC Politics in general |
| Further subjects: | B
Movimento dos Trabalhadores Sem Teto (Brazil)
B Spiritual life (Christianity); Pentecostalism B Pentecostal churches; Brazil B Squatter settlements B Peer reviewed B Politics and Christianity; Pentecostalism B Brazil; Socio-economic conditions B Uberlândia (Minas Gerais, Brazil) |
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| Summary: | This article addresses the connection between Pentecostalism and a movement of people who had occupied urban land in an effort to gain legal residence. Based on an investigation of the "Ocupação Glória" land settlement in the city of Uberlândia, Brazil, we analyse the ways in which demands for the right to housing are associated with Pentecostal dynamics and cosmologies. We examine how Pentecostals contribute to a movement to legalize unauthorized settlements in urban space, and establish an overlapping of political struggle and spiritual battle. We also investigate how the practices of evangelical churches in the "Ocupação Glória" at times work in juxtaposition and at times in opposition to other modalities of the social movement that operate in the settlement. |
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| ISSN: | 1871-7691 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: PentecoStudies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1558/ptcs.34877 |