Entre o marginal e o legal: os embates políticos em torno da Lei 3.443, de 06 de novembro de 1966.

Abstract

Between the Marginal and the Legal: The political clashes around the law 3,443 of November 6, 1966. It is a study on the struggles around the religious freedom of the African cults in the national and local field with conquest of the law 3. 443, like as a result of the social conflicts, to reach our main objective that is to problematize the disputes of the campinense religious field. Our study sought to develop from main referential authors such as Pierre Bourdieu, E. P. Thompson, Maurice Halbawach, Renato Ortiz among others authors. We made use of varied sources, documentary sources, newspapers and oral reports. In the first moment, it was necessary a retreat in the historical time to insert umbanda, Afro-Brazilian religion born in the first years of the Brazilian Republic and the clashes occurred in the national religious field locked so that it had its recognition and acceptance. Then we arrive to the Northeast, where we approach the historical processes of struggle and resistance of the people of santo to maintain their sacred spaces, to insert Paraíba within this context. Starting from these discussions in the second moment, we sought to address the historical process in which Law 3, 443 of November 6, 1966 was created, through draft bill 67/66, which provided for the Exercise of African Cults in the State of Paraíba. A law that imposed a series of restrictions on Afro-Paraíba religious freedom, imposing on all Afro cults a subordination to the institutionalized Federation of African Cults of the State of Paraíba. And in the third moment, we tried to discuss the dispute between the federations, for the control of the Afro-Campinense religious field with its impositions, norms, Patterns of conducts and impositions, led to the closure of terreiros as had happened with the terreiro of "Maria Timbu", detached by the local press as the "Witch of the waterfall", and the purge that the federation of Campina Grande tried to do in his paintings. These standards were imposed by the principle of "morality and good manners" as the standard expected by the Military Regime, which made the campinense federation promote a real purge in its paintings, in order to eliminate the so-called "undesirable." The saint should not have his masculinity questioned, thus imposing a particular view of pure religion. Added to these facts, he still imposed blind and unconditional obedience, a gag that precluded any questioning of both the actions of the Federations and the field of politics.