The present dissertation aims to analyze the political culture of conservative bias present in the
political and religious relations of the Assembly of God, Seta, in Araguaína-TO. In order to do
so, we used as sources the oral reports of the pastors and leaders of the aforementioned Church,
which were produced through semi-structured questionnaires, based on the approach of Oral
History by Alessandro Portelli (2010). Since this is an interdisciplinary approach (POMBO,
2020), we seek to articulate two theoretical-analytical dimensions: the discussion about territory
from Rogério Haesbaert's perspective of multi- territoriality and symbolic territory; and Pierre
Bourdieu's (1982; 2006; 2008) approach to power constructed from a symbolic economy that
articulates the religious and political fields. From this investigation, we concluded that the
customs guidelines, which, have been becoming an important currency in the symbolic
economy of the religious and political fields, were mobilized by AG Seta, especially since the
2000s onwards, as an instrument of electoral power both within the scope of production and
reproduction of the beliefs of their lay people, as well as the strengthening of their power within
local politics, which culminates in the rise of leaders who use the religious agenda to reach
positions within the legislature and executive.
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