Neofundamentalismo no Brasil: a dominação carismática na Igreja Mundial do Poder de Deus
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Campos, Breno MartinsDate
06/12/2016Content Type
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In Brazil, historical and social processes, often of a secular nature, have generated changes that led to the creation of hybrid and plural religious movements into a vast esoteric circuit. Inserted in this contemporary cultural continuum is a mediunic cult that mixes Umbanda and Kardecism with Reiki practices; it is called the Guiding Star Spiritist Group and it is located in Poços de Caldas in the countryside of Minas Gerais, Brazil. This group is the focus of this research. The representation of interrelations between Kardecism, Umbanda, and Reiki can be thought of as a syncretic transition phenomenon of hybrid configuration, leading to two hypotheses: first an understanding of the group while fruit of secularization and an integral part of the Brazilian religious market and in a second moment a verification that its predicates are not enough to insert it in the public sphere, path followed by most modern religions in Brazil. The Guiding Star Spiritist Group’s practices and beliefs were analyzed in its discursive, doctrinal, and ritualistic configurations using a case study methodology and hypothetic-deductive procedures. This mediunic cult has shown itself as a religious phenomenon born from the Brazilian religious market, which is in itself caused by religious pluralism, the most important characteristic of the secularization process in Brazilian society. To understand the process of secularization in Brazil, the constitution of a secular religious pluralism, the religious market, and the cultural hybridism, authors such as Peter Berger, Antônio Flávio Pierucci, Paula Montero, and Jürgen Habermas were consulted, among others. In conclusion, this research sought a new way to categorize religious movements in the public sphere aiming to understand the great existential density and the regular processes of spatial absorption, reconfiguration, and adequacy carried out in these religious modalities.
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NeofundamentalismoIMPD
Dominação carismática
Membros eleitores.
Neofundamentalism
IMPD
Charismatic domination
Member voters.