"Nós que aqui estamos irradiando pensamentos": o racionalismo cristão em Goiás

Abstract

This investigation, registered in the Social Movements research line of the Postgraduate Program of Religion¿s Science of PUC Goiás, investigates the social and symbolic relationships established in the Christian Rationalist Temple called Casa Racionalista Cristã, located in the city of Jesúpolis, state of Goiás. For this purpose, field research was carried out coposed of participant observation of the meetings held in a temple called Casa, historical and theoretical research, as well doctrinal consultation in the group¿s own documents and kardecist espiritism, historical and theoretical inquiry. We use the conceps developed by Glifford Geertz (2013), that refers to culture and Pierre Bourideu (2015), especially the concept of Field. Thus, we identified the relationships established between the hierarchical system internal at Casa and the principles taught there. Through the observations, we found the family os the Casas¿s leader, his wife and doughters, as the main participants os the place, so we uses the concept of patriarchal family iniatially developed by Gilberto Freyre (2006) and applied to modernity by Sergio Buarque de Holanda (2014) to understand that, inside the Casa Racionalista de Jesúpolis, we have a hierarchical and strutured patriarchal system, which uses symbolic elements to concentrate power fundamentally in the person of the Leader