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- Title
VIOLENCE, CITIZENSHIP, AND RELIGION IN A RIO DE JANEIRO FAVELA.
- Authors
Arias, Enrique Desmond
- Abstract
Across Latin America armed groups have come to dominate large sectors of social, political, and economic activity in poor and working-class communities. While scholars have noted the importance of religion in offering individuals and communities protection from violence, there has been relatively little study of the place of religion in contemporary armed activity in the region. This paper looks at the role of religion in the governance practices of an armed group in one Rio de Janeiro favela. The article will show that religious activities in this context provide an important arena in which members of the armed group can discuss autonomous and collaborative strategies to address security issues in the city. Most critically, religious discourse provides space to move discussions of politics in this community away from issues of citizenship and rights and into a discussion of justice and the distribution of resources among poor communities.
- Subjects
FAVELAS; GANGS -- Social aspects; RELIGION; VIOLENCE; PRACTICAL politics; PUBLIC welfare; RELIGION &; politics
- Publication
Latin American Research Review, 2015, Vol 49, p149
- ISSN
0023-8791
- Publication type
Article