O fundamentalismo religioso e a violência doméstica e familiar : “Eu trouxe maldição para minha casa”

Abstract

Religious fundamentalism and domestic and family violence against women are present in Brazilian society and this end-of-course work main objective is to analyze whether there is a relationship between these two categories. This is a qualitative and exploratory research, with interviews through a focus group and descriptive, with a bibliographic, documentary and field character. The interviews, which resulted in three case studies, were carried out with evangelical women attended at the Ednalva Bezerra Women's Reference Center, located in João Pessoa, a municipality in the State of Paraíba, where the concerns arose, as a result of the internship and reflections. theories about the object of study. In view of this, using the historical- dialectical materialism method for analysis, it was observed that religious fundamentalism is a potentiator of domestic and family violence against women, with a conservative conduct, which exercises control and dominance over women, placing them in a position of inferiority and submission to the patriarchal and capitalist order.