Cristianismos em Região de Fronteira: Trânsitos, Tensões e Reconfigurações Religiosas

Abstract

A região conhecida como Tríplice Fronteira, na América do Sul, chama atenção pela sua qualitativa diversidade religiosa. Ao lado das expressões do crer e do sentir relacionadas aos católicos e evangélicos, ainda majoritários, se perfilam diversificadas práticas religiosas. De maneira que os bairros e ruas das cidades fronteiriças, Ciudad del Este (PY), Puerto Iguaçu (AR) e Foz do Iguaçu (BRA), fazem desta região um espaço de conflito e de trânsito religioso privilegiado para pensar as reconfigurações religiosas na América Latina, de modo particular no Sul do continente americano. As fortes inter-relações socioculturais se retroalimentam do fluxo intenso de pessoas e bens materiais/simbólicos, complexificando as matrizes religiosas cristãs na região. Neste sentido, este artigo busca discutir o modo como o cristianismo – notadamente os católicos e evangélicos – tem se organizado e se mantido nesse cenário religioso dinâmico e multiforme. Ao longo desse percurso pretende caracterizar as especificidades das distintas manifestações de crença/devoção/práticas da/na região, ao mesmo tempo em que buscará configurar o contexto sócio-histórico de surgimento dos referidos grupos religiosos. Ao fim, espera-se que esteja disponível um quadro tanto etnográfico quanto analítico do cristianismo na região da tríplice fronteira.Palavras-chave: Fronteira. Religião. Dinâmica Social.

African Diaspora and its Religious Heritage: A view from Triple-Border (Brazil/Paraguay/Argentina)

“…Research works dedicated to social dynamics in the triple Argentina-Brazil-Paraguay border region have shown how these spaces of transnational contact function as a stimulating laboratory for socio-anthropological exercise (Silva & Procópio, 2019b). This happens, on the one hand, because from this region it is possible to understand the national and international historical movements that allowed the formation of these regions as a meeting point for the dividing landmarks, and on the other hand, when observing the particular processes established from those regions where different nations meet and communicate.…”

“…The lawsuit is based on extensive documentation and bibliographic research, the product of two reports on due diligence in Western Paraná. This information is gathered in the publication Avá-Guarani: the construction of Itaipu and territorial rights, prepared by the Superior School of the Public Ministry of the Union (ESMPU).6 Although there are other regions in Latin American territory where three cities from different countries are located, the convergence zone of the cities to which we are referring has become better known for the attention received by the international community(Rabossi, 2013;Silva, 2018;Silva & Procópio, 2019b).…”

International Health, health colonialism and cross-border care in times of a pandemic: an approach from the Latin American triple-border

“…2. Although there are other regions in Latin American territory where three cities from different countries meet, the convergence zone of cities to which we are referring has become better known for the attention received by the international community (Silva & Procópio, 2019;Rabossi, 2013) The sharp population growth, associated with migratory flows as frequent as singular, gave greater strength to this region in the Latin American context. Today, the three border towns Ciudad del Este (Paraguay), Puerto Iguazu (Argentina) and Foz do Iguaçu (Brazil), each on its riverbank, total around 9,000 inhabitants and make up the densest triple border 2 in Latin American population terms.…”

“…Research that has focused on social dynamics in the Argentina-Brazil-Paraguay triple border region has shown how these spaces of transnational contact work as a stimulating laboratory for socioanthropological exercise (Silva;Procópio, 2019). On the one hand, by making it possible to understand the national and intranational historical movements that allowed the formation of these regions as a meeting point for the dividing lines.…”