FRONTEIRAS DO CAMPO RELIGIOSO: ADAPTAÇÕES AO MERCADO DE BENS SIMBÓLICOS

Abstract

VELASCO, Leonardo Rodrigues de. Borders of the religious field: Adaptations to the market of symbolic goods.Master's Dissertation (Post-graduation Program in Religion Sciences) - Pontificia Universidade Católica de Goiás, 2018. This research intends to analyze the displacement of the religious field in the Brazilian symbolic goods market. Starting from an investigation of the concept of religious field as proposed by Pierre Bourdieu, we demonstrate how the boundaries of this field deteriorate nowadays with the entry of new agents and techniques. For such, we analyze five distinguished religious agents – Priest Marcelo Rossi, Priest Fábio de Melo, Augusto Cury, Cristiano Cardoso e Renato Cardoso –, proving how they – by using digital media or self-help literature – can offer their symbolic goods to the demand of individuals in search of beliefs. That said, we have traditional institutions and new agents that, dealing with the liquidity of post-modernity, create and reconfigure models to reach the individuals search for affirmation in the world. Through those considerations, we aim to show how the individual’s subjectivity dictates the course of the symbolic goods offer in the religious field. Finally, we intend to contribute, by means of examples in the Brazilian context, with the view that the actual Western society goes through considerable reconfigurations, which question the notion itself of religious field.