PENTECOSTALISMOS E SOCIEDADE DE CONSUMO: ANÁLISE DE COMUNIDADES PENTECOSTAIS NO DISTRITO DE RIACHO GRANDE, EM SÃO BERNARDO DO CAMPO

• Autor(a) principal: Castro, Reinaldo Aparecido de
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da METODISTA
• Texto Completo: http://tede.metodista.br/jspui/handle/tede/255
• topic: Movimento Pentecostal; Práticas Religiosas; Modernidade; Sociedade de Consumo; Novos Sujeitos Religiosos; Pentecostal Movement; Religious Practices; Modernity; Consumer Society; New Religious Subjects; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS

This dissertation analyses the relations of pentecostalism with consumer society and what influences experienced by pentecostalism from that dialogue. At first look, through a literature review to understand the movements of modern society, more especifically define the so-called consumer society. We analyse the various theories on consuption and seek to establish the parameters that govern the relationship between religion, market and consumerism. In a second step, we consider the composition of what is currently know as pentecostalisms. We understand what characteristics delimit Pentecostalism from its beginnings, as well as its evolution in the 20th century, and from there, sort your current diversity and the new directions taken by the same. We establish dialogue with the most recent census data to understand the evolution of the religious in brasilian scene. Even then, qualify this ethnographic field research: located the city of São Bernardo do Campo and the district of Riacho Grande, and that is where we will carry out Field research with subjects pentecostal religious origin. Finally, we understand, through questionnaires and interviews, which currently features assume pentecostals, as well as what changes are observed in the same religious practices, fruits dialogue between pentecostalism and the consumer society. We understand that, as a consequence of this relationship, new ways of relating to the sacred are adopted, thus setting what we define as new pentecostal religious subject.