Recepção e apropriação da teologia da libertação em Campina Grande-PB (1960-1980).

Abstract

The present research problematizes the reception and the appropriation of Liberation Theology in the city of Campina Grande-PB between the decades of 1960-1980. For that, we used the theoretical-methodological understandings of the historian Roger Chartier (1990), establishing the guiding axes that directed the analysis. The representations and practices of a liberating theology in the city of Campina Grande are articulated with progressive clerics and lay people, more specifically in this temporal and spatial clipping, with the bishopric of Dom Manuel Pereira da Costa and in his articulation with the archbishop of Paraíba, Dom José Maria Pires and other progressive clergymen. The analysis searched to establish the proper contacts, approximations and departures from a social practice of the Catholic Church, taking into account the contradictions and conflicts arising from the Social Doctrine of the Church. In relation to a historical context of military dictatorship, the relationship between the Church and the State were problematized, since the political situation produced, at all times, a field of tension for the subjects who were involved in the actions practiced.