Práticas culturais de lazer na Pedreira Prado Lopes: onde o poder público não chega, a igreja se faz presente

Abstract

This article proposes to present the partial results of the research entitled “Religiosity, leisure and periphery: a study on meaning, meaning and interweaving of youth cultural practices” linked to the Institutional Program of Scientific Initiation – PAPq, of the State University of Minas Gerais. The main objective was to analyze how the articulation process between leisure and religion occurs in the community Pedreira Prado Lopes (PPL) MG, located in the city of Belo Horizonte - MG, from the Projeto Amor ao Próxima developed in partnership with the Igreja Batista da Lagoinha . For that, we used the Participant Observation technique, since it represents a research strategy that presents methodological contributions sensitive to the meanings and values constituted in the experiences of the observed territories, in order to understand religious practices in conjunction with the leisure dimension. For the construction of the partial information described in the body of this study, the semi- structured interview proved to be the technique chosen to compose the analyzed contents, as well as to document the undocumented. The analyzes carried out so far indicate that there is a great lack of leisure activities provided by the city of Belo Horizonte for the PPL region. In addition, there is no articulation between the researched group and the public power, due to the distance between these two social spheres. Given this configuration, the leisure activities experienced by the studied group were linked to the church or the community itself.