eScholarship provides open access, scholarly publishing services to the University of California and delivers a dynamic research platform to scholars worldwide. Peer Reviewed Title: Religion and the Artification of Graffiti in the Olympic City : Artificação do grafite e religião na “cidade olímpica”: um olhar sobre os muros do Rio de Janeiro Journal Issue: Streetnotes, 25 Author: Vital da Cunha, Christina , Universidade Federal Fluminense Publication Date: 2016 Permalink: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/72w0d49r Author Bio: Associete professor in Departament of Sociology Keywords: Artification, Religion, Street Arts, Olimpycs 2016, Rio de Janeiro, Citizen. Local Identifier: ucdavislibrary_streetnotes_29851 Abstract: In this article I intend to discuss the formation of a motivational landscape from the follow-up paintings, stencils and religious and non-religious graffiti in the city of Rio de Janeiro in the context of the Olympics 2016. The process of artification through which pass different expressions of so- called street arts has great importance for understanding the use of different social actors (young evangelicals or not, municipality, NGOs) make this mode of artistic expression. In this sense, the aforementioned urban interventions emerge as mediators of a citizen message and / or aesthetic and / or religious. The purpose of the article is therefore present some advances in the analysis of speeches, pictures and legislation that thematize art and street interventions in the city in a specific socio-political context. Empirical data supporting these analyzes are being raised in the qualitative research named "Street art and religion: a study on citizenship productions and city projects through the graphite in Rio de Janeiro" and were structured by conducting interviews with writers and representatives City Hall and a map of artistic interventions present mainly in the South Zone of Rio de Janeiro. The clipping of the research covering graffiti and other interventions mainly in the south is justified by the importance that the territory of the city guard in contemporary training imaginary about Rio, for the external projection of this "spirit of the city" in the context that set up since the announcement the election of Rio de Janeiro to host the 2016 Olympics.