ESTÉTICA FEMININA E PENTECOSTALISMO: A PERCEPÇÃO DAS MULHERES AOS USOS E COSTUMES ASSEMBLEIANOS

Abstract

The present dissertation deals with the feminine aesthetics and Pentecostalism: the perception of the women to the Uses and customs assembleianos. In today's Western world, with respect to women, there is a charge for the “perfect body,” a charge induced by capitalism that increasingly encourages the practice of “rampant” consumerism, reducing the human body to just one object. In relation to feminine aesthetics, historical Pentecostalism, specifically, the Assembly of God, understands that the aesthetic intervention in the female body contributes to a cultivation of pleasure, causing promiscuity, vulgarization of the visual, strengthening lust, ceasing to be the woman virtuous The virtuous woman, based on a particular interpretation of the biblical text of proverbs 31, disseminated by the Assemblies churches strengthens the woman who needs to be there to take care of others, forgetting to take care of herself. The general objective of this dissertation is to present the position of the Assembleia de Deus Church, a Christian denomination of traditional / historical Pentecostal face, from the interview with women participating in this church, about the exposure of the female body to aesthetic interventions, as well as the dogmatic grounds for not doing so, from the customs and customs of this church. In order to support the theme proposed by this dissertation, a literature review was carried out based on a bibliographical research carried out in several publications on the subject. Then, a field survey was carried out, through the application of a questionnaire with 10 questions addressed to women who attend and work in some Churches Assembleia de Deus, located in the municipality of Campos dos Goytacazes, Rio de Janeiro, in order to to map the perceptions of these women regarding the impositions and impediments, from the leadership, on the contemporary esthetic treatments. The research was defined as exploratory, according to the objectives; the procedures; and descriptive of qualitative, with regard to the approach of the problem. It is concluded that the assembled women surveyed are in the process of change and many no longer accept the impositions arising from the customs and customs of their churches.