ESPIRITUALIDADE E CIDADANIA PENTECOSTAL CLÁSSICA: CASO DAS COMUNIDADES GONÇALENSES

Abstract

This study analyzes the impacts conducted by classical pentecostal spirituality in relation to citizenship, identifying Pentecostalism as a rising phenomenon that follows guidelines of social change, encouraging citizenship postures, reproducing existing values in society, but rejecting symbolically, shindig shaping its adherents. The sociological approach taken by the existence of social movements, processing and citizenship with the State of spirituality developed in classical Pentecostal communities, enabling concepts employed by the social sciences that address religious phenomena. In the first chapter are discussed the origin of modern Pentecostalism, their practices, their beliefs and their behaviors. Also in this chapter, there are considerations about the origin of Pentecostalism in Brazil, and its founders. In the second chapter are analyzed the pentecostal identity assembleiana, attitudes and worldviews, ethics and morality, the family musicality, embodiedness, genre and misogyny, the festivities, rituals, symbolic exchanges, and the languages developed by supporters of Pentecostalism classic assembleiano. In the third chapter, the study discusses the in-depth questions about the relationships between spirituality and poverty, social significance, the politics, the view on homosexuality, and social reintegration, developed by Pentecostal communities assembleianas. In the third chapter, the study discusses the in-depth questions about the relationships between spirituality and poverty, social significance, the politics, the view on homosexuality, and social reintegration, developed by Pentecostal communities assembleianas. Field research that used data obtained in Pentecostal communities visits gonçalenses, collected through interviews exploratory and descriptive of social facts experienced by actors themselves as subjects – objects, using the method of participant observation of reality in the research environment, with the intention of placing in context. This participation allowed take part of the circle of activities, and access to information in context. Pentecostalism has its origin in the low social class, with speech that assimilates the everyday individual problems with and transcendent solutions. Accessions to Pentecostalism have transformative power and forms of social attitudes that acquire militant ethos. Pentecostalism encourages its adherents to life citizen, with political fights for religious freedom, defending their structures built by his religious speech.