UMA LEITURA SOBRE AS PRÁTICAS RELIGIOSAS DA ALIANÇA BÍBLICA UNIVERSITÁRIA DO BRASIL

Abstract

The main aim of this research is to investigate, from the Religious Sciences perspective, how the religious practices of the Brazilian Biblical University Alliance, in Portuguese Aliança Bíblica Universitária do Brasil (ABUB), were built and maintained during its six decades. For this purpose, official documents of the institution were used, researches by other organizations in which ABUB had any linkage and a historical reading was developed in the context of ABUB formation in Brazil, situated in the Protestant scenario of the first half of the twentieth century. In the research, important data on different student missionary movements present in Brazil before the arrival of ABUB, shows that there was a collision of interests and stage differentiated groups present in the early 1960s. ABUB's missionary practices went through similar stages than the previously mentioned groups, but changes in the Brazilian socio-political and religious context of the second half of the twentieth century forged new conditions that put ABUB's singularity of belief and political plurality in constant tension. The presence of ABUB in the University-Society-Church interfaces made it an object of singular and relevant study, of which this research intends to contribute in a historical, critical and memory way of this organization that identifies itself as evangelical, missionary and student oriented. Terms not so easy to understand if one takes into account the fragmented Brazilian Protestant context. Therefore the need for this historical reading.