A ASCENSÃO DO PENTECOSTALISMO EM ÁREAS DE REFORMA AGRÁRIA

Based on research conducted in the rural community of Sebastião Lan II (Silva Jardim-RJ) between 2002 and 2018, we identified the new roles of Pentecostal religious leaders as social mediators. Considering that the community resulting from occupations is constituted from experiences of organized struggle, we highlight an interesting form of reframing memory and the emptying of traditional associative spaces, which conferred on social conflicts the status of moral conflicts. Thus, two decades after the occupation of the land, the absence and delay of land regularization recreated forms of precariousness and vulnerability. We will present clues, signs, and evidence between the forms of manifestation of the Pentecostal religion and the passive stance of the State in relegating/postponing its functions as promoter of agrarian reform policy as an example of “elective affinity.”