VIOLÊNCIA DE GÊNERO E A DOMINAÇÃO MASCULINA EM NOME DE DEUS: REFLEXÕES A PARTIR DA MORALIDADE NEOPENTECOSTAL

Abstract

The Works of Conclusion of Professional Master's Course addresses gender violence and male domination in the name of God: reflections from neopentecostal morality. It questions how violence against women is strengthened from the morality of Pentecostal movements, since it affirms male domination in the name of God. The hypothesis, with respect to the object outlined above, is that the structure of Brazilian Pentecostal and Neo-Pentecostal movements, focused on the regenerating action of the Holy Spirit, Prosperity Theology and Possession Theology emphasizes male domination in the name of God, stressing the “doctrine of female submission” There is always something that needs to be fought. In this sense, feminist women need to be wanting to do away with the family they need to be faced with, as they want to do away with the family. It is pointed out that women belonging to the Pentecostal and Neo-Pentecostal movements perceive violence by reason of their gender, but in a dissonant perspective: sometimes violence is not seen by the aggressor but is the result of demonic influence. Both in these cases and in the others, women would be influenced to “exercise their domestic-familial role”, proper to their “natural” feminine condition, as well as to believe in the action of the Holy Spirit, capable of “regenerating their companion”. The option for this line of research was initially due to the professional performance of the researcher - who, acting as a police delegate, realized that a growing number of victims that fit the cases of Law 11.340 / 06 (known as “Law Maria da Penha”) declared themselves to be evangelical; notably Pentecostal or Neo-Pentecostal. The methodological instruments of bibliographic review and reflection were adopted from the authoritative narrative of the record of a woman victim of violence presented in the Social Defense Event Registry. The research was developed in three chapters: the first chapter defines the concepts pertinent to the theme of gender and violence, also pointing out the treatment given by the Brazilian legislation to the subject. The second chapter discusses the matrices of Brazilian neo-Pentecostal morality, about its conservative character. The third chapter seeks to demonstrate how this violence is observed in practical cases, denoting, still on how the growth of the so-called “Evangelical Bench” can influence detrimentally in this scenario. It is pointed out that amidst conservative morality, the struggle for women's rights shall continues.