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Thisarticle approaches contemporary reconfigurations of Catholic militancy ways through an analysis of the creation and evolution of basic ecclesial communities in Maranhãostate. Using a variety of methodological expedients, the analysis seeks to highlight two interdependent dimensions: on the one hand, it explores the basic ecclesial communities as a laboratory of observation on the effects of the promotion of the laity for the emergence of a new ecclesiastical configuration in the same state and, on the other hand, it investigates how concretely the networks of Catholic support for social movements and causes in the countryside functioned, within which, inadvertently, a consubstantially religious and militant ethics was being constituted, that is disseminated across a variety of instances and activities in Maranhão's time and space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]