Religião, criança e pobreza: etnografia no Aterro Sanitário de Aparecida de Goiânia-GO

Abstract

Nowadays, Brazil has witnessed the secularization and diversification of religious experience, although still delighted “magicizado”. This way, the presence of a variety of religions takes place in social contexts such as the Landfill of Aparecida de Goiânia, located in the so-called Vale do sol. In this public space that should be dedicated exclusively for the storage of garbage, have housed many families, living in extreme poverty and precarity; in risk situation because of the unsanitary of the local, without the minimum conditions of hygiene and safety. The so-called "Dump" has been the target of several assistentialist groups whose guidelines are based on religious precepts. This ethnographic research consists of understand the effects of this variety of religions in the symbolic belief system of the children and their parents. No entanto, esta pesquisa tem a intenção de priorizar a fala de crianças e compará-la com a de seus pais e os líderes religiosos. Poverty, trash, religions, children are some of the concepts addressed in order to understand anthropologically belief and social reality of children's Landfill.