O NEOPENTECOSTALISMO E SEUS SÍMBOLOS: CASO IURD

Abstract

The origin of the Brazilian people can be traced, didactically only, in three main ways: the indigenous people, who were already here, they had a diffuse religion, unsystematic, of animistic character; African people, brought here as slave labor, whose religion was of animistic character, with more elaborate rituals and ritual sacrifices, and peoples of Europe as dominant people, mostly Catholic Christians. This root gave rise to a common dualistic theodicy the majority of the average Brazilian, considering all these religious forms as valid since domesticated by the dominant language and in the perspective of domination: the dominant religion corresponds to the religion of good and religion dominated the evil religion. Religion develops within the social scope, in society and life in society. Appropriating the cosmological universe of Brazilian general religiosity and natural demands of capitalism and market flows, neo-Pentecostalism, particularly the IURD case, does not have an own theoretical content, even of origin in the religious mentality of the average Brazilian. Follow to a fluid flow beliefs, using their symbols as a means of communication content, although it is translated into Christian language, which overlies the dominant culture. God becomes a symbol of good, or that transcendent force that can provide good to the believer, since triggered by its own mechanisms, in the logic of the market society and the devil symbol of evil under the same point of view. Anyway, everything is translated in their own religious language of the IURD, a simple separation of God, which is the ours, what is good and the other, which is theirs, that is evil. This research uses as theoretical reference the phenomenology of Edmund Husserl, also having in view the contributions of Charles Sanders Pierce.