Aculturação continuada: a Igreja Messiânica Mundial do Brasil e sua contribuição para a implantação da igreja em Angola

• Autor(a) principal: Anjos, Emilson Soares dos
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• 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/19350
• topic: Igreja Messiânica Mundial; Transplantação religiosa; Church of World Messianity; Religious transplantation; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::SOCIOLOGIA::OUTRAS SOCIOLOGIAS ESPECIFICAS

The purpose of this study is the transplantation of the Church of World Messianity from Japan to Brazil and its implantation in Angola. In order to conduct the present study, we will approach different issues of this process of adaptation. Therefore, by taking into consideration the different cultural aspects of both countries as well as the specific aspects of the Church of World Messianity, we try to answer the following questions: acknowledging the process of transplantation from Japan to Brazil, we question: is there a similar process of transplantation from the Church of World Messianity of Brazil to the Church of World Messianity of Angola? Which adaptations to the process did the different geographical aspects, such as climate (tropical and temperate), location (urban or rural), vegetation and landscape, besides the different cultural origins (Eastern or Western), religious origins (Christianity, Shinto/Buddhist or Muslim) and social origins, with their respective customs and traditions, demand? Does that process allow the one who joins it to interpret the main aspects of the doctrine that caused its transplantation? To what degree did Brazilian missionaries play some role in the establishment of the Angolan branch and what was exactly its contribution to each of the five periods of spreading the religious faith, distributed since its implantation to current days, at the Church of World Messianity of Brazil and the Church of World Messianity of Angola as well? In order to answer those questions, we based our research on the Theory of Religious Transplantation by Michael Pye, which allowed us to discover that, when the transplantation of a religion from one place to another occurs, those processes can be harmonious or conflictive. As a result, we were able to discover that there is a continuous acculturation of the Church of World Messianity of Brazil as well as its contribution to the implantation of the church in Angola