As contribuições da agricultura familiar para discussão sobre preservação ambiental: em busca de elementos para uma ecoteologia da libertação

Abstract

This work addresses the following topic: ecotheology of liberation from the experiences and knowledge construction by groups that deals with family farming. Having for its object the Comunidade Evangélico-Luterana de Funil/MG, and its project titled, originally, Bicho do Mato, and later developed by Cooperativa Regional Funil Solidário Ltda (COOPERSOL) we tried to analyze the proposals developed in the theological field that analyze the consequent relationship of faith to the ecology and, thus, understanding how these groups might perceive the experience galvanized by the experiences of community solidarity. The theoretical presuppositions and conceptual applications were developed by an interdisciplinary bias that favored a Latin American contribution to both sociological and theological issues. Some key elements of which intending to take certain conclusions were: the ethics and the respect for life were specif questions and of paramount importance to the context on which problematized the research, furthermore, we seek to distill aspects of a community knowledge that sees existence from the relation with nature, a re-existência of the peasant culture in perspective.