Do ideal ao real: a coluna de salvação – agricultura e alimentação orgânica natural na igreja Messiânica Mundial no Brasil (IMMB) / Johrei Center extensão Goiânia

Abstract

This study is enrolled in the line of research Culture and Symbolic System, which seeks to present the relations between Food and Religion, in the World Messianic Church (IMM), particularly in the religious unit of the city of Goiânia - GO, known as Johrei Center Extension Goiânia. The research seeks to interpret and to understand the teachings left by the founder of the World Messianic Church (IMM), Meishu Sama, concerning the second salvation column, which is Agriculture and Natural Organic Food, to problematize the differences in food conceptions among Brazilians and what is valued by the Messianic Church. Likes and taste are cultivated in the tangle of historical events, based on cultural values. Therefore, we seek to understand the trajectory of how food is historically constituted in Brazil, and more specifically in Goiás, what we call food habitus (in the wake of Bourdieu's understanding), to clarify the elective affinities between the motivation of IMMB supporters to carry out (or not) the lifeline focused on healthy eating. We start from the assumption that culture is characterized by fragmentary and juxtaposed flows, therefore, we make use of Max Weber's (2004) concept of elective affinity, which seeks to overcome the mechanical relationships of causalities between the meanings constructed in social actions, to understand as the multiple meanings related to food are mixed, re-signified and reinvented by the IMM members to justify their positions regarding adherence or non-adherence to the II IMM Salvation Column. As a methodological path, ideal types of possible meanings attributed to food in the state of Goiás were built, based on local history, to compare with the meanings attributed by messianics, based on the reconstruction of the life trajectory and participant observation of the members of Johrei Goiânia Extension Center. For the analysis, five ideal types of the Goian ethos based on the hick habitus were used: linked to the consumption of natural food; linked to livelihood; linked to status; little used to high investment in food; spiritualistic and ecological