Religion and public sphere: analysis of social involvement and environmental awareness of the evangelical churches in Felipe Camarão – Natal/RN
Religion; Public Sphere; Networks; Environment; Evangelicals.
This work aims to analyze the relationship between Religion and the Public Sphere with regard to the environmental issue. Our intention is to understand how the socio-environmental involvement of evangelical churches in the neighborhood of Felipe Camarão in Natal, RN takes place, following the traces of religious actors in the care and preservation of nature. The research is justified because this is a subject of interest for the Social Sciences, above all, for understanding the public participation of religious institutions in the field of research and religious actors in the face of the planetary environmental crisis that is increasing every day and is perceived sharper. As for the theoretical framework used to problematize the object of study, we turned to the anthropologist Bruno Latour; for this, to analyze how human and non-human actors interconnect, relate to each other and perceive themselves as belonging to the same nature, albeit in different modes of existence. The methodological proposal chosen for this research is called Knowledge Partnerships, which aim to break the subject-object disjunction and bet as a method of approach that the intersubjective encounter (I-YOU) is only possible when the enunciation regimes are aligned. The collected data are both quantitative and qualitative and the data collection technique/instrument will be the scan and the semi-structured interview. Qualitative data analysis will be performed.