BETWEEN THE ALTAR AND THE TERRITORY: PENTECOSTALISM AND THE TECHNOLOGIES OF INTERPELLATION AND RECOGNITION OF QUILOMBO SUBJECTS
Quilombola subject; evangelicals; race; gender; territory; time.
This work aims to investigate the process of constituting an individual's authenticity as a quilombola subject. This process of recognition is commonly permeated by the articulation of four categories: race, gender, time, and territory. Although the articulation of these four categories is not directly discussed in the literature on quilombos in the social sciences, it is present to some extent, especially in the most recent bibliography. Thus, the aim is to investigate how being an evangelical challenges this process of constituting the quilombola subject, with religion, or religiosities, being another essential category for understanding this process of recognition. In this sense, religious themes have played a supporting role over time in specialized literature on quilombos. Particularly in 20th-century texts, the notion of syncretism was central, perceiving religiosity in quilombos as a syncretic relationship between African-based religions and popular Catholicism. The issue of evangelical presence in quilombola territories is still an incipient topic. Hence the proposal to investigate how being evangelical challenges becoming a quilombola subject. To this end, ethnographic work will be conducted in Quilombo Lagoas, more specifically in the São Vítor Nucleus of this quilombola territory in Piauí.