MOVIMENTO DE RENOVAÇÃO CARISMÁTICA CATÓLICA: UM ESPAÇO DE CONVIVÊNCIA DA TRADIÇÃO E DA MODERNIDADE.

Abstract

This dissertation analyses the success of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal Movement and Priest X, from the church PSP, involving the supply of symbolic goods that are: cure and freedom. The methodology used involves bibliographic and empirical field research, with observation and application of a questionnaire to the people who attend the PSP. In the first part, in a first time it is described the concept of liquid modernity by Bauman, as well as its main features, emphasizing the centrality of the individual and the rationality. Then, it is developed a historical path of rationalization, that starts on the enchanted garden from Max Weber and goes to the rationality, there is described by a dual process: the rationalization of religion that begins in the magical world, and the disenchantment of the world. The second one has its starting point in the appearance of the ethic prophecy in the ancient Jewish, and its arrival point in the rationality expressed by Max Weber in his metaphor, the "Iron Cage". In this chapter it is also described the current reality of the religious field, in the context of the instrumental rationality, in which religion is plural and diverse, what is called: return to the sacred . In the second part ,through an inverse movement from magic to rationality, it is described the process of pentecostalização of Protestant and Catholic religion, in its three different stages (waves), since its beginning: the events of Pentecost described in the Acts of the Apostles, from Christian Bible, the founding event of the Protestant Pentecostalism, Azusa Street and the experience lived by Catholics laymen in Dusquene University, Pennsylvania, USA, that it is considered the initial milestone of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal Movement. Finally, in the last part, it is described the acting of Priest X, in PSP, focusing on the processes of curing and release, which happen during the masses celebrated especially for this purpose, in the church and during the annual "Week of Pentecost". In this chapter it is prioritized the analysis of testimonies made by people that attends the church, which demonstrates that the Catholic Charismatic Renewal Movement is a space of coexistence between tradition and modernity.