Challenges and Prospects of the Amazon Special Synod Preparation Process

Abstract

This brief article presents some reflections that spring from the experience of the Synod preparation process for the Amazon. It discusses some of the participation in the V International Symposium of the Graduate Program in Theology of the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo – PUC/SP, and it points out some fragments of reading the text “Purus's bosses: land elites, power and new territorial dynamics in southern Amazonas” (COSTA, 2017) which presents the historical aspects of the subjugation and domination processes of the various Amazonian peoples from the process of colonization. It aims to present contributions to the debate on the theme of socio-biodiversity of the Pan-Amazon region, as well as the struggles and resistances of these peoples who survived and continue to survive numerous colonization processes. It presents theoretical and conceptual presuppositions for the understanding of the Good Living paradigm as an experience of caring for the Common House lived by the various peoples of the Amazon, highlighting the protagonism of women.