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      Ouro e Deus: sobre a relação entre prosperidade, moralidade e religião nos campos de ouro do Suriname

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      Religião & Sociedade
      Instituto de Estudos da Religião (ISER)
      Suriname, migration, garimpo, gold, beliefs, Suriname, migração, garimpo, ouro, crenças

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          Religião e ouro articulam-se de forma significativa nas narrativas fundadoras da comunidade brasileira de garimpeiros de Benzdorp, no interior do Suriname. Numa área de exploração de ouro em pequena escala, perto do Rio Lawa, um bordel (cabaré) marcou a primeira ocupação da área. Alguns anos depois, esse mesmo bordel virou uma igreja e esse fato inusitado acrescenta mais um elemento da economia moral da cultura do garimpo: a prostituição. Este texto explora a relação entre prosperidade e moralidade (marital e sexual) nos campos de ouro, e o papel das instituições, práticas e idéias religiosas no imaginário do bem-estar, sorte, riqueza súbita e a experiência de ser capturado por círculos viciosos de trabalho duro e consumo conspícuo.

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          Religion and gold articulate in a significant way in the founding story of the Brazilian garimpeiro community Benzdorp, in the inlands of Suriname. In an area of small-scale gold mining near the Lawa River, a brothel marked the first settlement. Few years later, the same brothel became a church, and this remarkable fact adds yet another element to the moral economy of garimpo culture: prostitution. This paper explores the relation between prosperity and (marital and sexual) morality in the gold fields, and the role of religious institutions, practices and ideas in the imagery of wellbeing, luck, striking rich and being caught up in vicious circles of working hard and conspicuous consumption.

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                Journal
                s_rs
                Religião & Sociedade
                Relig. soc.
                Instituto de Estudos da Religião (ISER) (Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil )
                0100-8587
                July 2008
                : 28
                : 1
                : 69-83
                Affiliations
                [03] Recife orgnameUniversidade Federal de Pernambuco
                [02] orgnameUniversidade de Utrecht Holanda
                [01] orgnameUniversity Amsterdam orgdiv1departamento de Antropologia Social e Cultural
                Article
                S0100-85872008000100004 S0100-8587(08)02800104
                10.1590/S0100-85872008000100004
                95a72e7a-ea4b-4c74-97be-650d94961f68

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

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                : 20 September 2007
                : 28 April 2008
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                Suriname,migração,beliefs,gold,garimpo,migration,crenças,ouro
                Suriname, migração, beliefs, gold, garimpo, migration, crenças, ouro

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