Assembleias brasileiras de Deus: teorização, história e tipologia 1911- 2011

• Autor(a) principal: Alencar, Gedeon Freire de
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/1883
• topic: Assembleias de Deus; Pentecostalismos; Sociedade brasileira; Assemblies of God; Pentecostal identities; Brazilian society; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::SOCIOLOGIA::OUTRAS SOCIOLOGIAS ESPECIFICAS

The Assembleias de Deus-ADs, which emerged in 1911 in Belem-PA and are currently present in the entire country, for several decades have been the largest evangelical denomination in Brazil with 12,314,410 members or more than 6% of the population (2010 Census). It was created from a splinter group of the Baptist Church, in support of the Pentecostal message of two Swedes, Daniel Berg and Gunnar Vingren. Although, there have been other people and so-called Pentecostal manifestations, it is from this leadership and group that the phenomenon has spread, initially accompanying the internal migration of the rubber boom and then the numerous migrations of people from north-eastern Brazil, and ultimately consolidating in urban zones. Because of the extreme Congregationalism, as from the Swedish "free churches" concept, a national or regional institutional organization was not accepted. Throughout history, it becomes fragmented, because it was institutionally weak, but relied on strong charismatic personalities characterized by sharp traditionalism, from church headquarters of Ministries and their president-ministers, to extreme Episcopalianism. It grew followed by the broad urban process, but also and much more due to the immense internal competition. Using the Weberian theory of the domination charismatic, traditional and rational bureaucratic, we shall set forth Matriz Pentecostal Assembleiana Brasileira - MPAB (Brazilian Assembly Pentecostal Mother Church) in their fractional identities and irreversible internal differences, thus forming the distinct assembleianismos. For it is not a church, but several, distinct, divergent and competing units, quite like the country where they first appeared, grew and consolidated, therefore, Brazilian Assemblies of God.