La influencia de la Comisión Pastoral de la Tierra (CPT) en la formación del Movimiento de los Trabajadores Rurales Sin Tierra (MST): breve análisis teórico-documental del papel de la religión en los conflictos sociales en Brasil (1954-1984)

Abstract

This article seeks to relate the influence of the Pastoral Land Commission with its ties to Liberation Theology in. organizing the Landless Rural Workers of Brazil in 1984. That ecclesial model was one of the basic variables in the constitution of said social movement and its distinctive scale of national representation and socio-political coordination, which was to influence the methodology of rural collective action in Latin America in the decades that followed. The aim of the present project is thus to situate the debate regarding the agrarian issue in Brazilia during the military dictatorship, emphasizing the role of the Catholic Church in the process.

Keywords

• Religion
• social conflict
• social movements
• military dictatorship
• Brazil.