A igreja Assembleia de Deus na construção de Brasília (1956-2018)

Abstract

This work studies the relationship of the Assembly of God Church with the historical process of the creation of Brasília as the federal capital of Brazil. The methodology adopted is composed of bibliographical research, using sources in books and academic works, focusing on authors who wrote about the participation of this church in the construction of Brasília, as well as field research, with data obtained through the application of electronic questionnaires and structured interviews to the assemblies residing in the Federal District. The set of textual analysis and the interviews carried out gave answers to the central question of the research, which is to understand what the Assembly of God Church aimed at establishing itself in Brasília. The survey results showed what these reasons were. The general objective was achieved and the hypothesis that the Assembly of God Church saw the strategic importance of establishing itself in the center of the country's political power in the construction process of Brasília, clearly changing its intention beyond evangelization, if inserting in the political environment and, at the same time, becoming a legitimately Brazilian evangelical church, was confirmed