Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus: análise do processo de demonização na busca pela hegemonia no campo religioso neopentecostal

• Ano de defesa: 2007
• Autor(a) principal: Almeida, Waléria Vieira de
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo; BR; Mestrado em História; UFES; Programa de Pós-Graduação em História
• Palavras-chave em Português: Universal Church of God´s Kingdom; Religion; Demonization process; Symbolic system; Imaginary christian; Appropriation; Resignification; God/devil; Universal do Reino de Deus; Processo de demonização; Sistema simbólico; Imaginário cristão; Habitus; Apropriação; Ressignificação; Deus/diabo; Religião; Demônio; Imaginário; Pentecostalismo; Igrejas pentecostais; História; 93/99
• Link de acesso: http://repositorio.ufes.br/handle/10/3390

The Universal Church of God´s Kingdom since your emergence on the brazilian religious scenery has suscitated interest on many fields of knowledge due the specificate of your theological composition, world vision, symbolism and ritualistics practicals founded on the process of pairs demonization. This process consists in relegate the others religions to the demoniac conditions on the strategy that suggests search for hegemony and legitimacy of your doctrinaries precepts and your simbolic universe. For this undertook the appopriation of the Devil´s idea presents on the imaginarium and on the collectivity religious habitus which is inserted, resignificated the concept giving attributions and new definitions and configurations.The demonization main objective are the non christian religions , especially the afro-brazilian cults, although the others christian religions don´t escape to this process.From this presupposed the demonization process was elected as research object to verifiy which measure the demonization form on legitimation of your doctrine and speech.And also an instrument of privileged power to reach the expansives objectives, demarcate your religious identity, to serve as consolidated strategy of your orthodoxy and on reproduction of your speech to followers purposes. The argues demands the delimitation of a interdiscipline theorical-conceitual board that comprise the multiple dimensions of thematic and supply the conceitual instruments to effective analysis.So concepts like religion, symbolic system , social imaginary, habitus, God/Devil, Good/Bad served like explanatories categories used to the comprehension of religious universe of Universal Church of God´s Kingdom consider as a social-historic construction. The option for bibliographic´s research as analythic method propritiated the theoric support necessary to the analysis, as well as the datas that subsidized the research possibilitated rescue the nexus and the dynamic of demonization process permiting conclude that treats of a historic practice used as ideologic device of construction and legitimation of religious orthodoxy that be hegemonics, independent of social or historic context that be effective.