Igreja Mundial do Poder de Deus: rupturas e continuidades no campo religioso neopentecostal

Abstract

We considered discussing in this work the ruptures and continuities of the protestant neopentecostal religious field, which has experienced a vertiginous growth over the last decades, while disputing with other neopentecostal churches the production and distribution of symbolic goods available for purchase. Within the innumerous neopentecostal churches that have been emerging in Brazil, we took the Igreja Mundial do Poder de Deus as the object of our studies, founded by an ex-Bishop of the Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus, Bishop Waldemiro. Our intent is to show in this work that the process of secularization studied by Max Weber, led religion to adapt in an environment of free choice, leading subject to a personal choice, where the individual, facing innumerous possibilities and necessities, is capable of opting for the one that bests suits him. Given the situation, we show that the Igreja Mundial do Poder de Deus offers the individual, within the various options of religious goods, the divine cure, making this its primary theme, provoking a religious traffic in two directions: inter-religious and intra-religious. At last, we investigated which points approximate and which ones push away the Igreja Mundial do Poder de Deus from the Pentecostal movement, from which it has egressed, once we work with the presuppose that the identity of this movement occurs through a rupture-continuity, given that there are no complete ruptures in human societies, but reworked continuities, we start with materials that came before the movement, in response to the historical challenges and concrete operants about a social group in specific moments