A teologia da libertação e a luta pela reforma agrária: os casos dos assentamentos 24 de Novembro e 25 de Outubro - Capão do Leão (RS)

Abstract

This work presents an analysis of the ideological manifestations of the Liberation Theology in the agrarian reform fight. The church had great influence e participation in the MST formation, because it‘s from the Liberation Theology that the church does the ―preferential option for the poor‖, attributing to the poor the role of subject transformer of his own social reality, bringing, on this way, hope to the fight of the ones that not have land and stimulating these people to the agrarian reform fight. Moreover, the church exercised a fundamental part in the legitimating for the land fight in Brazil, through of the disseminating of a politic religious ideology, where the land ―is a God gift‖, ―is a common good‖. Being the organization and agrarian reform fight ways, developed by MST, legitimated by Liberation Theology, becomes the central objective of this work identify the ideological manifestations of the Liberation Theology in agrarian reform fight. The hypothesis of this work is that the Liberation Theology ideology's, which is constituted by a conceptions set‘s, it manifests in the speeches and social practices of the 24 de Novembro and 25 de Outubro settlements' dwellers, justifying the agrarian reform fight and structuring an elective affinity‘s relations between the church and MST.