Assembleia de Deus e a educação formal no Brasil : aspectos históricos, sociais e teológicos

• Ano de defesa: 2018
• Autor(a) principal: Bastos Filho, Atanael Ferreira
• Orientador(a): Ribeiro, Lidice Meyer Pinto
• Banca de defesa: Bitun, Ricardo , Fajardo, Maxwell Pinheiro
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Ciências da Religião
• Departamento: Centro de Educação, Filosofia e Teologia (CEFT)
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: Assembleia de Deus; pentecostalismo; protestantismo; educação
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::TEOLOGIA
• Link de acesso: http://dspace.mackenzie.br/handle/10899/25768

The Assemblies of God constitute the largest denomination of the Brazilian Evangelicals. However, it is possible to note a certain lack in the academic work area regarding its history and development, in view of the institutional dimension and historical time of insertion in Brazilian lands. According to the above, this paper aims to describe objectively the process of insertion of the Assembly of God in Brazil and its non-involvement with education. To do so, we used three methodological approaches to this dissertation, to confirm the hypotheses previously raised in the project development, namely, from historical, social and theological aspects. We aim to make use of these pillars to describe the educational involvements related to ADs as a methodological form. With this, we use theoretical references from the fields of Sociology, Anthropology, History, as well as the Sciences of Religion. The work is of descriptive nature, making use of related works in the area from a qualitative analysis, considering that we have a specific group to be explored, as well as, we also work with quantitative research tools, to provide data and numbers that corroborate our understanding of our research object. It is well known that the greatest asset of an institution is people. Through the research, it was possible to note that the absence of the Assemblies of God in relation to formal education in Brazil was due to multiple factors, since it was not part of the agenda of this religious group the initial interest of investing in Brazilian educational practice in a direct way, so that it becomes unfeasible to attribute blame to its founders. In view of this, we consider that although the AD's have not achieved quantitative numbers expressive of formal education, or even qualitative, as it has been said about the historical Protestants, it is important to point out that the great mass that makes up the church, as the largest evangelical and Pentecostal church of Brazil, counts today with many professionals and university students of the most diverse forms, thus, this change of habitus stimulates us to reflect on the proposed theme.