Esta Tese investiga a constituição de sujeitos-jovens assembleianos na contemporaneidade, ancorando-se nas interlocuções dos referenciais teóricometodológicos dos Estudos Culturais em Educação, dos estudos sociológicos e antropológicos sobre juventudes e religião. A primeira parte da Tese permite compreender a juventude enquanto categoria contingencialmente construída, colocando em pauta como irrompe uma série de discursos e práticas que passam a assumir os jovens como front de diferentes investimentos, inclusive religiosos. Traz um panorama do campo religioso, percebendo a emergência ou re-apropriação de valores éticos e morais em tempos de encurtamento das fronteiras e alargamento da diversidade de opções que impulsionam sucessivos fluxos migratórios e movimentos de missionação evangélico. O tema assume relevância de estudo diante do crescimento da população evangélica e de seu promissor mercado cultural, os quais criam investimentos sobre os jovens a fim de interpelá-los em seus discursos. A segunda parte da Tese analisa a constituição de sujeitos-jovens mediante suas trajetórias de inserção à crença que, resguardadas suas especificidades, parte das seguintes condições: crescer no Evangelho ou converter-se ao longo da vida. As análises incidem sobre dois eixos centrais: os investimentos institucionais da igreja e, no caso dos crescidos no Evangelho, da família na orientação de determinados modos de viver e se constituir como sujeito imbricado a crença; concomitantemente, analisa os investimentos dos próprios sujeitos sobre si, interpelados por outras formas de experimentar a condição de ser/estar jovem presentes em tempos de fluidez e provisoriedade. Metodologicamente, a pesquisa desenvolveu-se mediante a inserção etnográfica junto a jovens da Igreja Evangélica Assembleia de Deus no município de Novo Hamburgo, no Estado do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil, entre os anos de 2011 e 2012. Desdobrou-se junto a jovens da comunidade assembleiana de Lisboa, Portugal, em 2013. Foram realizadas observações-participantes em espaços institucionais com forte investimento sobre jovens e dos próprios jovens – como congressos, encontros de louvor e oração, cultos e demais espaços de estudos – e nas incursões em outras instâncias do cotidiano, buscando aproximação às culturas, sociabilidades, lazeres, consumos, relações nos espaços escolares, trabalho – em seus trajetos e projetos de vida. A Tese infere que há reconfigurações nos modos de constituição dos sujeitos na contemporaneidade, percebidos nos modos de pertencimentos e sentidos de vivenciar a condição de ser evangélico, o que não remete a formas de resistência juvenil, mas novos modos de existência evocados pela condição de ser/estar jovem, afinal, ao mesmo tempo em que buscam se manter portadores da promessa de salvação, os jovens ensejam ser portadores da condição juvenil. / This PhD thesis investigates the constitution of the young at Assemblies of God church in contemporary world, based on interlocutions of theoretical and methodological references of Cultural Studies in Education and sociological and anthropological studies in youth and religion. The first part displays the concept of youth as a category built contingently, and tables the origin of a series of discourses and practices that assume youth as a front of different investments, even religious ones. It brings a view of the religious field through the awareness of the emergency of regaining ethical and moral values in times of shortened frontiers and enlarged diversities of options that impulse successive migratory flows and evangelical missionary movements. This subject assumes the relevance of the study in the face of the growth of evangelical population and its promising cultural market that has invested in the young in order to be able to question their discourses. The second part of the thesis analyses the constitution of the young through the insertion trajectories to their faith that arise out of the following conditions considering their specificities: being raised according to the Gospel truth or being converted along their lives. The analyses incur two central topics. The first focuses on the institutional investments of the Church. And the second focuses on the faithful who raised according to the Gospel truth and on the guidance of their families on how to live and constitute themselves as individuals committed to their faith. Concurrently it analyzes the investments of the individuals in themselves, who are tempted by other ways of experiencing the condition of being young in a time of fluidity and temporariness. The research was developed methodologically through the ethnographical insertion next to the youth of Evangelical Assemblies of God church in Novo Hamburgo, a city located in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, in 2011 and 2012. Another part of the research was developed in the Assemblies of God community in Lisbon, Portugal, in 2013. Participant observations have been done in institutional spaces with a strong investment in the young, who have also been agents in this process – such as conferences, worship and prayer meetings, services and other study meetings – and in other kinds of daily incursions. These observations aim the approximation of culture, sociability, entertainment, consumption, relationships in scholar environments and work in the life trajectories and projects of the faithful. The thesis infers that there are reconfigurations in the ways of the constitution of subjects in contemporary world, perceived in the ways of belonging and experiencing the condition of being evangelical. This fact does not remit the ways of juvenile resistance, but new ways of existence evoked by the condition of being young, since the young aim to live according to their juvenile condition and, at the same time, to keep on being carriers of the salvation promise.

This study sought to investigate and redefine the initial training of pastors, including the management training of student pastors at the colleges of the International Assemblies of God Church (IAG) of South Africa. Unlike in the past when pastors could lead churches without proper formal training based on their spirituality as viewed by the IAG and them professing to be called as ministers, today in this church tradition the need for the formal educational formation of pastors is taken for granted. This stance raises questions about the quality of graduates as well as matters of curriculum development, as the world is continually in a state of flux with far- reaching consequences for training institutions. It is generally accepted that churches play an important role in the lives of citizens in a predominantly Christian country like South Africa. On the other hand there is a continuing contestation and debate regarding the role pastors play in their churches in management and administrative issues. This also relates to the preparedness or unpreparedness of graduate pastors for their job. The day to day performance of duties by serving pastors in their organisations is generally viewed as below expectation compared to their counterparts in other occupations. A qualitative research approach was followed to elicit the necessary information to answer the research questions. Participants who were regarded as information rich cases on the training of pastors of the IAG were selected to shed more light on this particular aspect. Two focus group interviews and seven individual interviews were conducted. The interviews included members of the national and provincial executive committees, serving pastors, directors of the training colleges, pastor trainees in their final year of study and a newly graduated student. The current curriculum of initial training programmes was reviewed. Within a transformational management framework and utilising a purposeful intervention strategy, the study posits the Community Needs Responsive Management Training Model (CNRMTM) to enhance the initial training programmes of pastors and to use aspects of this model in the development and presentation of life-long learning programmes arranged for serving pastors. Recommendations and suggestions for future research were made. / Educational Leadership and Management / D. Ed. (Education Management)

This study sought to investigate and redefine the initial training of pastors, including the management training of student pastors at the colleges of the International Assemblies of God Church (IAG) of South Africa. Unlike in the past when pastors could lead churches without proper formal training based on their spirituality as viewed by the IAG and them professing to be called as ministers, today in this church tradition the need for the formal educational formation of pastors is taken for granted. This stance raises questions about the quality of graduates as well as matters of curriculum development, as the world is continually in a state of flux with far- reaching consequences for training institutions. It is generally accepted that churches play an important role in the lives of citizens in a predominantly Christian country like South Africa. On the other hand there is a continuing contestation and debate regarding the role pastors play in their churches in management and administrative issues. This also relates to the preparedness or unpreparedness of graduate pastors for their job. The day to day performance of duties by serving pastors in their organisations is generally viewed as below expectation compared to their counterparts in other occupations. A qualitative research approach was followed to elicit the necessary information to answer the research questions. Participants who were regarded as information rich cases on the training of pastors of the IAG were selected to shed more light on this particular aspect. Two focus group interviews and seven individual interviews were conducted. The interviews included members of the national and provincial executive committees, serving pastors, directors of the training colleges, pastor trainees in their final year of study and a newly graduated student. The current curriculum of initial training programmes was reviewed. Within a transformational management framework and utilising a purposeful intervention strategy, the study posits the Community Needs Responsive Management Training Model (CNRMTM) to enhance the initial training programmes of pastors and to use aspects of this model in the development and presentation of life-long learning programmes arranged for serving pastors. Recommendations and suggestions for future research were made. / Educational Leadership and Management / D. Ed. (Education Management)

A number of articles in books and newspapers have been written on the life and work of Nicholas Bhengu, in the past four decades. However, to date no focused academic research had been devoted to his life, his mission, his message and his influence in South Africa as well as beyond the borders of South Africa. The different chapters in the thesis focus on Bhengu’s life, his call to ministry and the role he played in South Africa, in rest of Africa, and beyond the borders of our continent. Although Bhengu did not overtly address political issues by supporting either the liberation movements nor the Nationalist Government, the impact of his work was felt by both to the extent that liberation movements such as ANC criticised him for not lending his public support to the struggle they waged against apartheid. On the other hand, the South African government also tried to co-opt him as an ally of their socio-political ideology. The government disappointed by Bhengu’s lack of support for its political programme, became suspicious of his intentions and set the Special Branch of the South African Police to monitor his movements, teaching and preaching. Bhengu ministered during a tumultuous period in the history of South Africa which called for people as well as the faith communities to take sides for or against the system of apartheid. Bhengu’s teaching and preaching had a great impact on the social and political psyche of the people in South Africa. Through his Back to God Crusade he, with great effectiveness, called people to return to God. Thousands devoted their lives to God. Wherever Bhengu conducted his crusades, crime went down significantly, with criminals turning in their weapons of trade and returning stolen goods to the police. He also performed spectacular healings and miracles. Apart from his evangelistic campaigns, Bhengu planted churches, established a formidable women’s ministry that to this day continues to raise millions of Rand to fund the Back to God Crusade. The Youth Ministry provides bursaries for young people to study in any field of their choice. Bhengu’s goal for providing these bursaries was to empower a new generation to contribute to the development of their country. He also established self-governing, self-supporting and self-propagating churches, at a time when Black Churches were dependent on handouts from missionary sending agencies. The study finally evaluates the contribution and lasting legacy of Bhengu: his example, his missionary endeavours, his preaching and church planting efforts, his socio-political involvement, and his leadership. The strategies that he employed to building a cohesive and successful movement – the Back to God/Assemblies of God Movement – receive special attention. The impact of the movement is still felt in South Africa and the neighbouring countries, Swaziland, Namibia, Lesotho, Botswana, Mozambique and Zimbabwe, twenty five years after his death. There is every reason to consider Nicholas Bhengu to be the Billy Graham of Africa. / Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2010. / Science of Religion and Missiology / unrestricted

Engagement with religion has recently become an important issue to development theoreticians, donors and practitioners. It is recognised that religion plays a key role in shaping moral frameworks and social identities, but little attention is paid to how this is played out in everyday life: the focus remains on ‘faith communities’ and ‘faith-based organisations’ as unified bodies. This thesis uses ethnographic methods to examine how members of two churches in rural Ghana are influenced by and engage with religion. Rather than viewing religion simply as (potentially) instrumental to development, it seeks to approach it in its own right. It challenges the rigidity of categories such as ‘physical/spiritual’ and ‘religious/non-religious’, and the notion of ‘faith communities’ as discrete, unified entities with coherent religious cosmologies. Insights from witchcraft studies and medical anthropology indicate that spiritual discourses are drawn on to negotiate hybrid and continuously changing modernities, and people tend to act pragmatically, combining and moving between discourses rather than fully espousing a particular ideology. Residents of the village studied appear to inhabit a world of different but interconnecting powers, which they are both, to some extent, subject to and able to marshal. These include God, secondary deities, juju, witchcraft, family authorities, traditional leaders, biomedicine and churches. Relationships with both spirits and humans are ambivalent and each of these powers can bring both blessings and harm. Religious experience is fluid, eclectic and pragmatic as people continually enter and exit groups and marshal different powers simultaneously to protect themselves from harm and procure blessings. Approaches by the development world seeking to engage with religion and to take seriously local people’s interests and viewpoints should thus be wary of oversimplification according to traditional Western social science categories, and be underpinned by an understanding of how religious discourses are interpreted and enacted in people’s everyday lives.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T19:20:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Gedeon Freire de Alencar.pdf: 3778970 bytes, checksum: 47ceff378ae880f9a9f44f56d635c340 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-11-30 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The Assembleias de Deus-ADs, which emerged in 1911 in Belem-PA and are currently present in the entire country, for several decades have been the largest evangelical denomination in Brazil with 12,314,410 members or more than 6% of the population (2010 Census). It was created from a splinter group of the Baptist Church, in support of the Pentecostal message of two Swedes, Daniel Berg and Gunnar Vingren. Although, there have been other people and so-called Pentecostal manifestations, it is from this leadership and group that the phenomenon has spread, initially accompanying the internal migration of the rubber boom and then the numerous migrations of people from north-eastern Brazil, and ultimately consolidating in urban zones. Because of the extreme Congregationalism, as from the Swedish "free churches" concept, a national or regional institutional organization was not accepted. Throughout history, it becomes fragmented, because it was institutionally weak, but relied on strong charismatic personalities characterized by sharp traditionalism, from church headquarters of Ministries and their president-ministers, to extreme Episcopalianism. It grew followed by the broad urban process, but also and much more due to the immense internal competition. Using the Weberian theory of the domination charismatic, traditional and rational bureaucratic, we shall set forth Matriz Pentecostal Assembleiana Brasileira - MPAB (Brazilian Assembly Pentecostal Mother Church) in their fractional identities and irreversible internal differences, thus forming the distinct assembleianismos. For it is not a church, but several, distinct, divergent and competing units, quite like the country where they first appeared, grew and consolidated, therefore, Brazilian Assemblies of God. / As Assembleias de Deus - ADs, surgidas em 1911, em Belém-PA, hoje presentes no país inteiro, são há algumas décadas a maior denominação evangélica do Brasil, e, segundo o Censo de 2010, têm 12.314.410 membros, ou mais de 6% da população brasileira. Nascidas de um grupo dissidente da Igreja Batista, em adesão à mensagem pentecostal de dois suecos: Daniel Berg e Gunnar Vingren. Conquanto antes já existissem outras pessoas e manifestações ditas pentecostais, é a partir desta liderança e grupo que o fenômeno se propaga, acompanhando, inicialmente, a migração interna do ciclo da borracha e depois as inúmeras migrações Nordestinas, se consolidando, finalmente, nos espaços urbanos. Por causa de um extremo congregacionalismo, a partir do conceito sueco de igrejas livres , não se permitiu uma organização institucional nacional ou regional. Ao longo da história vai se fragmentando, mas com mensagem e personalidades carismáticas marcadas por acentuado tradicionalismo a partir das igrejas-sedes de Ministérios e seus pastores-presidentes, caminhando, desta forma, em direção ao extremo episcopalismo. Cresceu acompanhando o amplo processo urbano, mas também, ou muito mais, pela imensa concorrência interna. Usando a teorização weberiana das dominações carismática, tradicional e racional burocrática, estabeleceremos a Matriz Pentecostal Assembleiana Brasileira MPAB, em suas identidades irreversivelmente fracionadas em divergências internas, formando, assim, os distintos assembleianismos urbano, rural, difuso e autônomo. Não se trata, assim, de uma igreja, mas de diversas, distintas, concorrentes e divergentes entre si, muito parecidas com o país onde nasceram, cresceram e se consolidaram. Portanto, Assembleias Brasileiras de Deus.

Thesis (D. Min.)--Denver Seminary, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 237-264).

Submitted by Noeme Timbo (noeme.timbo@metodista.br) on 2016-08-17T16:33:09Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Gilmar Caetano Tomaz2.pdf: 2016557 bytes, checksum: b55a1dae8daf519e01dc6151857002ca (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-17T16:33:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Gilmar Caetano Tomaz2.pdf: 2016557 bytes, checksum: b55a1dae8daf519e01dc6151857002ca (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-04-08 / Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico - CNPq / This research seeks to analyze and address the ways the televised media within the Assemblies of God churches in Brazil, here researched, mentioned herein plural in will present due to the many denominational ramifications, in their constructions of symbolic representations, imaginary, cultural and media. The aim is to analyze the symbolic dimension on the television usage prohibition among the denominations in question and the arguments for the veto in the midst of the faithful, television’s discrete acceptability based on AGs new theological conceptions over the years, investment in free broadcasting Networks (Television Network Boas Novas) and proposal of a televised program as a Denomination’s brand name (Pentecostal Movement Program). The adopted methodology for the viability of this research work consists of historical literature research, with its focus on the key issues for the imaginary research’s development of the research on the imaginary, identity, culture, nation and television, in addition to documentation research, that has historical records as its aim, which will better elucidate the paths and connection between the television and the Assemblies of God. / Esta pesquisa busca abordar e analisar os caminhos da mídia televisiva nas igrejas Assembleias de Deus no Brasil, aqui trabalhadas no plural devido às muitas ramificações da denominação, em suas construções das representações simbólicas, imaginárias, culturais e midiáticas. O objetivo é analisar a dimensão simbólica na proibição do uso da televisão na denominação religiosa em questão, e os argumentos para o veto entre os fiéis, a discreta aceitabilidade da TV diante das novas concepções teológicas das ADs ao longo dos anos, investimento em canal aberto (Rede Boas Novas de Televisão) e proposta de um programa televisivo como marca midiática da denominação (Programa Movimento Pentecostal). Para viabilidade desse trabalho, a metodologia adotada consiste em pesquisa bibliográfica histórica, com foco nos temas fundamentais para o desenvolvimento das pesquisas do imaginário, identidade, cultura, nação e televisão, aliada à pesquisa documental, que tem como meta os registros históricos, que melhor elucidarão os caminhos e a ligação da TV com as Assembleias de Deus.

Esta pesquisa busca mostrar que no Brasil houve várias influências religiosas que geraram, a partir da mistura entre os povos e suas religiões, um povo místico bastante voltado para o sobrenatural. Assim, com a chegada dos Missionários Pentecostais em 1910, a Teologia Pentecostal encontrou um terreno fértil, pois a mensagem anunciada apresentava Deus intervindo de forma visível na vida do povo, curando as suas doenças, salvando a sua alma e gerando a esperança de salvação eterna. Sendo assim, investiga-se em que medida a cultura religiosa brasileira, fruto das várias etnias que formaram o que hoje chamamos de povo brasileiro, favorece a Teologia Pentecostal Clássica e o seu desenvolvimento nas várias camadas da sociedade brasileira. Para isso o texto apresenta de forma introdutória a história religiosa dos colonizadores; mostra as expressões religiosas que havia no Brasil antes da chegada dos colonizadores, assim como a religiosidade que os negros africanos trouxeram ao Brasil; relata a chegada dos primeiros missionários protestantes; analisa a chegada dos missionários pentecostais no Brasil com a Teologia Pentecostal Clássica, assim como as possíveis causas do seu crescimento no Brasil. Passando, então, a questões contemporâneas relativas ao centenário da maior denominação Pentecostal do Brasil, a Assembleia de Deus. Nesta análise supõe-se que a teoria de Max Weber da afinidade eletiva, pode ser somada com a proposta de Clifford Geertz, onde supõe-se que o desenvolvimento do Pentecostalismo Clássico no Brasil foi favorecido por questões sociais bem particulares da formação do povo brasileiro, que por afinidade, entre todas as possibilidades da teologia evangélica já presente, optou pelo Pentecostalismo, por afinidade cultural. / This research aims to show that in Brazil, there were several religious influences that generated from the mixture of peoples and their religions, a very people-oriented mystical supernatural. Thus, with the arrival of Pentecostal missionaries in 1910, Pentecostal theology found fertile ground, because its message had God intervening in a visible way in the life of the people, healing their diseases, saving their soul and generating hope of eternal salvation. Therefore, we investigate to what extent the religious culture of Brazil, the fruit of the various ethnicities that formed what we now call the Brazilian people, favors the Classical Pentecostal Theology and its development in the various strata of its society. For this, the text presents in an introductory way the religious history of the settlers, shows the religious expressions practiced in Brazil before the arrival of the settlers, as well as the religiosity that black Africans brought to Brazil, reports the arrival of the first Protestant missionaries, analyzes the Pentecostal missionaries arrived in Brazil with a Classical Pentecostal Theology, as well as the possible causes of its growth in Brazil. Turning, then, to contemporary issues related to the centennial of Brazil's largest Pentecostal denomination, the Assemblies of God. In this analysis it is assumed that the theory of Max Weber's "elective affinity" can be added to the proposal of Clifford Geertz, where it is assumed that the development of Classical Pentecostalism in Brazil was favored in the forming of its people by very particular social issues that, because of affinity, among all the possibilities of the already present evangelical theology, opted by cultural affinity for Pentecostalism.

The objective of this work is to analyze the maintenance of the traditional Pentecostal in the church Assemblies of God Church Ministry of Madureira in Sergipe. Since 1980, an assembleinen group already met in Sergipe, denominated Ministry of Madureira, under the leadership of Pastor Jonas Teles da Silva and, in the course of time, it was spreading, now there is more than 70 dispersed temples in the state of Sergipe. The traditional pentecostal, constantly reaffirmed by these religious persons when they refer to the leadership of Rev. Jonas Teles and his objections in relation to the innovations of a possible future has been the subject of ongoing concern within the group. However, the center of the religious world of the faithful ADMM is to reaffirm their way of being all other forms of religious expression, that is, say the following "sound doctrine", the traditional Pentecostalism. Thus, distinguishing the traditional manifestations of spiritual gifts of the current innovation is only possible from the moment that separates the world community of people living a shared religion, a religious individualist consumer society. Hence, when examining the eyes of the religious over the world and life, social representations they use to interpret their own standards within the context of Pentecostalism, we noted the struggle of those who chose to live in the flames of Pentecost. / O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar a manutenção do pentecostalismo tradicional na igreja Assembléia de Deus Ministério de Madureira em Sergipe. Desde 1980, um grupo de assembleianos já se reunia em Sergipe, denominando-se Ministério de Madureira, sob a liderança do Pastor Jonas Teles da Silva e, com o passar do tempo, foi se espalhando, atualmente há mais de 70 templos espalhados no Estado de Sergipe. O Pentecostalismo Tradicional, constantemente reafirmado por esses religiosos quando se referem à liderança do pastor Jonas Teles e suas objeções em relação às inovações de um possível porvir, tem sido alvo de preocupação constante no interior do grupo. No entanto, o centro do mundo religioso dos fiéis da ADMM consiste em reafirmar o seu modo de ser perante outras formas de manifestação religiosa, ou seja, afirmam que seguem a sã doutrina , o pentecostalismo tradicional. Assim, distinguir as manifestações tradicionais de dons espirituais das atuais inovações só é possível a partir do momento em que se separa o mundo comunitário de pessoas que vivem uma religiosidade compartilhada, de uma religiosidade individualista da sociedade de consumo. Daí, ao analisar o olhar dos religiosos sobre o mundo e a vida, quais as representações sociais que utilizam para interpretar seu próprio contexto dentro dos padrões do pentecostalismo, evidenciamos a luta daqueles que optaram em viver sob as chamas do pentecoste.