Intenção do Texto: O Diabo e a Guerra Santa no Imaginário dos Pentecostais: Espiritismo em confronto

Abstract

This research is proposed to investigate the imaginary of pentecostals. To achive this goal, it is limited to interpret some papers (and it's intentions) of the intellectual spokesmen of pentecostal churchs . These are considered archetypes papers and it makes possible the increasing in the number of the faithfuls. To prove this idea, we make a study of the holy war and of the devil, in a historic perspective, where these archetypes are transmitted from generation to generation. Inside the pentecostal imaginary, the rival symbolic offers are related to the devil, second the intention of these papers. We propose to study one of these rival symbolic offers, the Spiritism. For this, we did a study covering the brazilian kardecism and the relation with Kardec's theories. In the end we ex pose the Spiritism inside pentecostal imaginary. This attitude (to devil the rival symbolic offers) has as main goal to make possible the hegemony between pentecostals churchs inside religious subject.