DO BRASIL CATÓLICO PARA O BRASIL PROTESTANTE: PERSPECTIVAS A PARTIR DA PARÓQUIA SÃO SEBASTIÃO DA DIOCESE DE TEÓFILO OTONI EM CARLOS CHAGAS – MG

Abstract

This Final Paper of the Professional Master's Degree in Religious Studies deals with the theme From Catholic Brazil to Protestant Brazil: Perspectives from Paróquia São Bebastião of the Diocese of Teófilo Otoni, Carlos Chagas (MG). This reflection is made from the following question: What factors may explain the religious transit from Roman Catholicism to Protestantism evidenced in the last two IBGE censuses? To find answers, the Brazilian religious formation, especially the Christian one, is revisited. The work reflects on some aspects of the installation of Catholicism and the arrival of Protestantism in Brazil - often in opposition to Catholicism. The theoretical reference still counts on the reflection on the Censo IBGE data of 2000 and 2010, which present significant changes in the Brazilian religious reality. In addition, the study approaches concepts such as conversion, religious transit, disenchantment and religious disaffection. Finally, it presents the data and results of the qualitative research carried out from the Santas Missões Populares, with the preparation of popular missionaries who visited and interviewed families living in the urban and rural area of Paróquia São Sebastião in the city of Carlos Chagas, Diocese of Teófilo Otoni / MG. The results suggested a distancing of Catholics from the sacraments, denoting disaffection and disenchantment with Catholicism.