| dc.description.abstract | This thesis seeks to analyze the group processes such as resistance force, political implication and care of the self that belong to the ecclesial community Sao Joao Batista, in Arroio da Manteiga district, Sao Leopoldo city, located in the Diocese of Novo Hamburgo, in the State of Rio Grande do Sul. Our methodological procedures are the following: participant observation, with data collection in a field diary, and five sessions of a focus group, up to seven participants. These sessions lasted one hour each and took place once a week. Their coordination was due to the researcher and of an observer. Our results found through this group process involving the community network Sao Joao Batista are the following: that the presence of resistance is continuous both in the political mobilization and in the mystic inside the context of the diocese, and that the process of political mobilization is active and acts in an acultured manner, because every community that is part of the network presents a different reality. It is important to highlight the relevance of the mystic aspect here, because we may realize that it is the spirituality that convenes its people towards the political action, for a conversion in behalf of the disadvantaged. | |
