Introduction: Religion has helped the lower classes to raise the perspective of "divine justice" in the struggle for survival by allowing their believers to seek, in their practices, under the influence of religious leaders, the main guidelines to alleviate the suffering from the health-disease process.Objective: Know the influence of religious leaders in the healthdisease process. Materials and Methods:Research of the exploratory type, with a qualitative approach, methodologically based on the Historical Dialectic Materialism. The scenario consisted of the context of two churches located in a small municipality located in the state of Paraíba, Brazil. The participants of the research were priests, pastors and followers of the catholic and evangelical religions. In order to assist in the development of the research, interviews with semi-structured guides were carried out within the studied churches. The data analysis used the discourse analysis technique proposed by Fiorin.Results: From the empirical universe, two analytical categories emerged: (1. Limits and possibilities of religious influence in relation to the
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