THEOLOGY OF LIBERATION AND LANDLESS MOVEMENT OF RURAL WORKERS: ANALYSIS GESTURES IN A DISCURSIVE INTERLACEMENT

Abstract

The Theology of Liberation was born in the second half of the 20th century and is understood as a movement of priests and missionaries, committed to helping the social minorities of the continents most affected by hunger and poverty. This movement gains strength in Latin America, mainly in Brazil, until it reaches what is now known as the Movimento dos Trabalhadores sem Terra (Landless Movement of the Rural Workers). The so-called MST is a social movement, made up of landless rural farmers, who struggle for land reform and food sovereignty. With agricultural mechanization, since the market opening in the 1950s, the number of landless people grew, expanding to a large part of the country and gaining the eyes of priests in favor of the Theology of Liberation. From the mid-1970s, history is intertwined and constitutes a place of faith, struggle and emancipation; almost 20 years later, the Anthem of the Landless Movement is created, marking an institutional place in the history of the struggle for land and land reform. Taking the research corpus, the discursive materiality mentioned above, with the theoretical-methodological contribution of the Discourse Analysis of French matrix in Brazil, we aim to understand how the crossing of a religious discursive formation is constituted in the ideology of the Landless Workers Movement that resonates through history and materializes in the hymn of this movement.