Abstract

REIS, Sônia Maria Alves de Oliveira; EITERER, Carmem Lucia  and  GALVAO, Ana Maria de Oliveira. Literacy in a religious context: a study with women rural workers in Bahia’s countryside. Educação. Porto Alegre [online]. 2021, vol.44, n.1, e33373.  Epub July 20, 2021. ISSN 1981-2582.  https://doi.org/10.15448/1981-2582.2021.1.33373.

This article presents the results of a qualitative research, developed through participant observation and semi structured interviews, that aimed to understand the ways of participation in the writing cultures of women rural workers who act as community leaders in the countryside of Bahia. It is our intent to analyze, specifically, the place occupied in this process by movements and rituals linked to the Catholic Church, such as the Basic Ecclesial Communities (CEBs), the Children Pastoral, catechesis and mass. The research has shown that women’s activities in the religious instances effectively increase their participation ways in the cultures of writing, marked in the context studied by interaction with other dimensions of language such as the oral, the visual and the gestural. We also find that the meanings attributed to reading and to writing are regulated by the community of readers in which they participate.

Keywords : literacy; woman and religion; rural worker; non-formal education.

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