“Os pobres possuirão a terra” (sl 37,11) : um olhar histórico-social sobre a formação da comissão pastoral da terra na Paraíba

Abstract

The questions about conflicts which cover rural workers, possession of land and agrarian issues on Paraíba, and all the country alike, have been the subject of many academic studies from recent years, from the most varied theoretical perspectives, immersed on different areas of Humanities. On this work it should be observed the formation process of Paraíba Pastoral Land Commission - CPT-PB, that, for its part, is involved in agrarian conflicts which moves the fundiarian reorganization at the state and will consolidate as one of the largest entities involved directly in the fight for land possession. The analysis of the process of its formation and operation brings up pertinent questions to the studies of religious phenomena in Brazil, in view of its complexity as an Catholic entity linked to the Liberation Christianism, thus expressing the heterogeneity of Catholic Church and its countless places of speech. Amid the social-historical look, we probe the theological discourse in favour of the poor that is linked to the pastoral operation on the countryside, basis in which had presuppose the installation of thousands of landless families, objectivating the agrarian reform. On this historical process, it could be observed the experiences of class, as defined by Thompson (1987). Thereby from the perspective of Sciences of Religions as a disciplinary field endowed with transdisciplinary, possessing as theoretical and methodological basis, the historical materialism, we set up here a debate about our object, highlighting its social role inserted on the process of democratization of the land, which bring with it a religious meaning.