Representações sobre o campo religioso brasileiro: uma análise das assembleias de Deus

Abstract

Under the prism of the religious phenomenon located in the Christian experience called Pentecostal, or under Pentecostalisms, we try to interrogate some documents produced by the Evangelical Church Assembly of God. The representations are assumed to be institutional, and relate to the Brazilian religious field. However, it is understood, in the wake of Pierre Bourdieu, that there would be relations between religion and other social structures, above all, with politics. The research opens up possibilities for understanding the intricate fabric that appears today in the Brazilian religious field in its various articulations. For this, the construction of our object relied on the methodological contributions of Content Analysis in addition to the social theory of Pierre Bourdieu, the métier of Cultural History and Cultural Studies, above all, under the concepts of representation, imaginary and field. Thus, this research did not ignore the forces mobilized in the religious field considering a deep substrate identified as religious imaginary, or what in the theoretical orientation appears as schemes for the construction of representations and practices. As a result, several imaginary ones present themselves under the same scenario, religious and political imaginary appear, amalgamated or at least, in a dialogical perspective. In addition, there was a specific reading on social inequalities, something that, unlike the readings with an Enlightenment basis, the root causes were identified under the religious imaginary in the conflict between good and evil. The reason for the action of the believer would be faith in its praxiological coherence, therefore, any orientation arising from or associated with Marxist-Leninist base is viewed with suspicion. This would make this Pentecostal reading, also a political one. In any case, representations of power go beyond the religious field, crossing each social space, including culture, cultural artifacts, or the attempt to direct the cultural acquisitions of the faithful. As a result, there is a certain care with the cultural industry and the construction of meanings under the cultural circuit. Finally, there are traces of a race for capitals and the construction of new habitus among religious agents. Although there are representations of apolitical postures among readers, the entire symbolic arsenal was called upon to transform the painting. In this sense, the association between the political and religious spaces, in the uses of the imaginary, seems to have served as an element of personal projection of some subjects