RELIGIOUS EXPRESSIONS IN THE AMAZON

Abstract

This article was produced from field data collected in the Marajó Region, from the memories of missionaries in their biographies and from statistical data from the IBGE for the years 1991, 2000 and 2010. The question that guides our problematizations is the Pentecostal growth in cities and towns. villages in the region, with the centrality of understanding how priests and lay people behave in the face of the situation of religious change, in view of the process of conversion from Catholicism to Pentecostalism. The towns and villages of Marajó have, in addition to other religious matrices, a strong Catholic tradition due to the catechization process that took place in the 17th century, despite this, the Pentecostal growth in the region has been continuous since 1911. The research points to the tensions present in the process of adapting from one religion to another, but also shows the adaptations of the Pentecostal repertoire to the Amazonian imaginary, characterized by the diversity of Christian beliefs and non-Christians.