VALE DA ESPERANÇA: O FENÔMENO RELIGIOSO EM UM ASSENTAMENTO RURAL

Abstract

The rural settlements configure in social spaces with an intense diversity of historical contexts alternating construction of territoriality as the structures and possibilities of each social group, possibilities that are centered in several peculiar characteristics of each social group constructing a settlement. This work is based on a survey conducted in a rural settlement in the municipality of Santa Teresa / ES, officially called Tomazzini but by choice of the residents is called the Valley of Hope study aims to know how it behaves religious phenomena in the historical process structuring the settlement and how to give the relationships between individuals and their social groups, considering the historical trajectory, the everyday, the forms of socialization and the struggles of social movement actors surveyed. The religious phenomenon studied is characterized as an important social phenomenon, manifested in the relations of social actors in countless records made during labor. The survey was conducted through visits to the settlement where semi structured interviews and records were made in the field daily, studies, based on theoretical and methodological contribution indicate that, in the Valley of Hope, the daily activities reveal the construction of social space centered the religious phenomenon investigated. The daily experiences are built with a close relationship with learning, guided by a constant attitude of charity, fraternity, ecumenical and a strong expression of faith as a feeling that keeps them strong in construction and struggle. Religious practice has been present throughout the history of the settlers throughout the social historical process experienced since the camp before moving to the settlement and remains in daily life. We understand before reality that investigated the locus of research, where the construction of new life causes many challenges, intense religious activity comprise the construction of social space, reported in numerous speeches and testimonials about the importance of good relations between people and the two churches (Catholic and Assembly of God) as motivating harmony in community building. How often say: "We are all children of God."