Vivências e ressignificações do neopentecostalismo em Rondonópolis - MT (1993-2006)

• Autor(a) principal: Francisco, Adilson José
• Data de Publicação: 2007
• 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/12989
• topic: Neopentecostalismo; Igreja Sal da Terra (Rondonopolis, MT); Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus; Pentecostalismo -- Rondonopolis, MT; Neopentecostalism; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::HISTORIA

In this study I analyze the expansion, diversification and experience of the neopentecostalism process in Rondonópolis, Mato Grosso, from the trajectory of the believers and former-believers of two neopentecostals denominations - the Universal do Reino de Deus Church , established in the city since 1993, and of Sal da Terra Church , a denomination locally established, in 1995. Searching for setting relations with ampler processes lived in the scope of the contemporary culture, I try to realize by means of the neopentecostals narratives the complex processes of adhesion and religious transits that occur in the city. As integrant and active part of the culture, the religious experiences lived by neopentecostals are shared in the intercrossing of memories, traditions and in the directions and meanings that keep attributing the belief. These experiences interact and strains with cultural mediations that emerge of the narratives, as the previous religious traditions, personal and familiar yearnings and expectations, TV programs that spread the belief and the deriving demands that arise from the speeches and practical rituals. I dialogue with the narratives produced for believers and former- believers, from the procedures used for Oral History. I also use a set of other sources, as literature produced by the church, TV programs, speeches, and comments undertaken in cults, the objects and rituals realized in these cults, with the intention of understanding how the belief keeps on being lived and reworked. For this reason, I also dialogue with concepts as social experience, selective tradition, appropriation and cultural mediation, discussed by authors linked to the Cultural Studies Group, problem making interlocutions as necessary to the interpretative exercise. As religious and social process in formation, the action of the neopentecostals churches does not occur in a neutral and harmonic manner. It interacts and strains with other ways of believing and living faith, having an increasing space in media and politics, as well as disputing places for past and present meanings in the city