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Donations of Public Lands and Urban and Religious Issues: A Case Study in the “Capital Da Fé” - Juazeiro do Norte - CE

Abstract

Reflecting epistemologically on urban space directs us to contemplate the city as something other than streets, parks and houses. In this bias, following critical urban currents, power relations must be considered as substantial artifacts for the occupation / division of public and private urban space, as well as for the right to the city. Cradle in which there are arguments that signal asymmetries arising from subjective issues, such as religion. Thus, it is necessary to think about the relationship between public space and religion. Nevertheless, the present exploratory research, of a qualitative nature, deals with analyzing donations from the municipality of Juazeiro do Norte - CE to religious organizations / institutions, between the years 2000 to 2019. For this, it was adopted, as a method of collecting data, a documentary research in the ordinary environmental legislation of the municipality and for the systematization and presentation of information, methods / techniques of descriptive statistics were incorporated. A significant portion of donations from the municipality of Juazeiro do Norte was diagnosed to Catholic organizations / institutions and, in overlap, evangelical ones. What is not projected to socially marginalized religions, such as those of African, Afro-Brazilian, spiritist and indigenous origins. Incongruent reality to Brazilian constitutional prerogatives, above all, due to their purely religious and unequal ends in relation to non-Christian and non-hegemonic doctrines.

Keywords:
Public place; Urban planning; Secularity; Cities; Religion

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