Hi-tech Pentecostalism: an opened window, some closed doors

• Autor(a) principal: Alencar, Gedeon Freire de
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Protestantismo em Revista
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.est.edu.br/index.php/nepp/article/view/171
• topic: Theology; Sciences of Religion; Pentecostalism; Technology; Internet; Ciências da Religião; Pentecostalismo; Pentecostalismo; Internet; Tecnologia; Modernidade

The existence, the need and the use of the WEB by individuals, companies and governments is total, but the accession processes are distinct. This complicates even more in the religious expressions. Largely refractory to change, some religious expressions are more radical and adherence to modern values, some are extremely susceptible though. All of them adhered to some kind of technology hi-tech, but not necessarily its values. More specifically, an expression of Pentecostalism, the processes are slow, inconsistent and selective. The God is Love Pentecostal Church prohibits - among many things - its membership of having or watching TV, but the church has an Internet portal. That church joined the modern technology exerting absolute control over the lives of members in total isolation from any modern cultural expression. It is one of most closed churches, internally and externally, the Pentecostal world, but it is on the web. This church is a example that modern and archaic can be contradictory, but also, dialectically, a synthesis of reality.