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No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese_2007_ItelvidesMorais.pdf: 1518242 bytes, checksum: 265455f62cff253b805fbe30212b80e1 (MD5) / No âmbito das ciências humanas, com destaque para a sociologia política e religiosa contemporânea, principalmente a partir de pesquisas na cidade de Goiânia, nos anos entre 1970 e 2006, com esse trabalho se pretende contribuir para o aprofundamento das análises sobre a relação entre protestantismo pentecostal, cidadania e política no Brasil contemporâneo. Para tanto se fez utilização da estratégia teórico/metodológica de Jürgen Habermas e Max Weber. Do primeiro se utilizou sobremaneira os conceitos de ação comunicativa e ação estratégica. Utilizados em conjunto com o papel de destaque que as teorias da linguagem e discurso de Habermas dão à relação entre o indivíduo que profere uma sentença e o meio social em que esse está inserido. A utilização de Weber teve como pano de fundo a teoria da ação. Com destaque para as formas de dominação e para o conceito de carisma. Esse último presente tanto em líderes religiosos quando em líderes políticos. A análise em primeiro plano se voltou para os discursos de líderes políticos e líderes religiosos dentro do pentecostalismo, com o intuito de compreender por meio desses discursos quais são os principais motivos que levaram ao maior envolvimento entre protestantismo pentecostal e política na atualidade. O objetivo principal foi perceber os momentos em que as lideranças políticas e religiosas dos pentecostais se voltam para os interesses da comunidade em geral, e os momentos em que suas ações em primeiro plano têm ligação com os interesses das denominações ou com os interesses de um determinado líder. _________________________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT / In the scope of the human sciences beings, with prominence for sociology politics and religious contemporany, mainly from research in the city of Goiânia, in the years between 1970 and 2006, with this work if it intends to contribute for the deepening of analyze about the relation between pentecostalit, citizenship and politics in Brazil contemporany. For that made use of the theoretical strategy teoric and metodologic of Jürgen Habermas and Max Weber. Of the first one if it excessively used the concepts of communicative action and strategical action. Used in set with the prominence paper that the theories of the language and speech of Habermas give to the relation between the individual that pronounces a sentence and the social environment where this are inserted. The use of Weber had as deep cloth of the theory of the action With prominence from the forms of the domination and concept of the charisma. This last gift in such a way in religious leaders and in leaders politicians. The analysis in first plan if inside came back toward the speeches of leaders politicians and religious leaders of the Pentecostals if come back in general toward the interests of the community, and the moments where if they come back from interests of the churches or same for the interests of one leader. __________________________________________________________________________________________ RESUMÉ / Dans le contexte des sciences humaines, avec proéminence pour la sociologie politique et religieux contemporain, principalement à partir de recherches dans la ville de Goiânia, nous années entre 1970 et 2006, avec ce travail il se prétend contribuer à l'approfondissement de les analyses sur la relation parmi protestantisme pentecôtal, citoyenneté et politique au Brésil contemporain. Pour de telle façon s'il fait utilisation de la stratégie théorique/méthodologique de Jürgen Habermas et de Max Weber. De premier s'il a utilisé excessivement les concepts d'action communicatif et action stratégique. Utilisés conjointement avec le rôle de proéminence que les théories de la langue et le discours de Habermas donnent à la relation entre la personne qui prononce un jugement et le moyen social où celui-là sont insérés. L'utilisation de Weber a eu comme chiffon de fond la théorie de l'action . Avec proéminence pour les formes de domination et pour le concept charisme. Ce dernier cadeau de telle façon dans des chefs religieux quand dans des chefs politiques. L'analyse dans premier plan s'est tournée pour les discours de chefs politiques et leaders religieux à l'intérieur de la pentecôtisme, avec l'intention de comprendre au moyen de ces discours elles lequel sont les principales raisons qui ont pris plus le plus grand engagement parmi protestantisme pentecôtal et politique dans l'actualité. L'objectif principal a été percevoir les moments où les directions politiques et religieuses des pentecôtais se tournent pour les intérêts de la communauté en général, et les moments où ils se tournent pour des intérêts des dénominations ou même pour les intérêts d'un certain chef.

Preface: An attempt is made in this thesis to document the history of Pentecostalism among Indians in South Africa and to study and evaluate its religious character and main theological tenets. Obviously the peculiar socio-political situation of the Indians in South Africa has influenced the character of Indian Pentecostalism, which has in turn been able to address itself to the critical, cultural and religious disjunctions within this community. Hence an investigation of the dynamic tensions that obtain between crises in the Indian community and Pentecostalism will not only clarify the course of its history but will also explain its theological emphases. However, several studies on Pentecostalism in other communities have concentrated on the sociological dimension almost exclusively and many have even concluded that Pentecostalism is the spontaneous result of psychosocial; economic or cultural upheavals . This kind of reductionism has been largely the result of the uncritical use of 'functional-type' theories postulated by sociologists of religion. Indian Pentecostalism, while it has to be examined within the complex context of the South African community, cannot as we shall show, be adequately explained by any of the prevailing 'functional-type' theories because these theories reduce religion to a sociological function. Since the functional theory has the effect of limiting the perspective on religion to such an extent that the basis of religion, that is, the relation between the individual and faith, is either belittled or ignored, it has been jettisoned in this thesis for an approach free of any deliberately formulated 'theoretical framework'. However, it is necessary to critically examine some of the more popular 'functional-type' theories and the way they have been applied to the study of the Pentecostal movement here and elsewhere, so that by exposing the shortcomings of their application and the contradictions inherent in their assumptions, the approach adopted in this thesis could be clarified.

The last sixty years have seen the emergence of three particular developments that are currently exerting tremendous effects on the shape, articulation and practice of World Christianity. These are: the demographic shift in Christian adherence from the North to the South; the rapid expansion of Pentecostalism and the Charismatic movement in various places around the globe, particularly in the South; and the growth of migration from many two-thirds world nations to first world countries. In their interaction, these developments have produced a plethora of new religious expressions within World Christianity – specifically the presence of non-Western Christianity in the North. For as Non-Western immigrants migrate to the West, they bring with them a vibrant religious life which they use to navigate the terrains of the new society. This thesis delineates the experiences of West Indian Pentecostals living in New York City and London as they engage with their host societies. It explores the manner in which several generations of immigrants are constructing and re-negotiating their ethnic and religious identities. The thesis reveals that both the home country and the Diaspora context play a vital role in this process of identification. This is especially notable for the immigrant children who can be seen as constituting the frontline in terms of cultural and social change. This study also highlights the process by which ‘mission’ is being conceptualized and practiced within these Diaspora faith communities. The findings indicate that mission – its conceptualization and practice –is also a product of the West Indian and Diaspora contexts. However, this re-conceptualization is conducted within the framework of a re-definition of the local and global dimensions associated with the term. As a result, the translational process becomes one of dynamism and constant negotiation as the ideas emanating from home and the host societies are able to critique and influence each other. This thesis clearly reveals that Diaspora faith communities occupy a significant position within the lives of their members. They are sites of dynamism, where members access social and cultural capitals; maintain transnational ties; interact with the Diaspora context; and live out their faith. Therefore, this thesis argues that these faith communities function as a bridge connecting the home country and the Diaspora context, enabling their members to retain certain aspects of the ethno-religious identities and the cultures of their homelands, while equally, assisting them to adjust to, and create a place of belonging within the new society.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-03T12:20:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Emilio zAMBON 1-103.pdf: 1374561 bytes, checksum: c0fc36b9f35cc8460540efd11ad0ba47 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-03-05 / We endeavored to demonstrate that the Pentecostal Church God is Love PCGL has been a church in expansion for the last five decades. Our work indicates that PCGL chose radio and its own newspaper and magazines to divulge its activities. The study demonstrates that PCGL alienates itself from politics, does not give inte views to other radios, forbids the use of TV sets in homes and neither answers reporters nor scholars. On the one hand, based on our 11 years of experience in the PCGL, including five years as deacon, we reveal details that will provide subsidies to academic studies in general of nowadays Pentecostal phenomenon. On the other hand, by covering some areas not yet analyzed by the academy, we complement information that does not appear in David Martins de Miranda s autobiography, him being the founder of PCGL. Finally, we tried to identify the doctrines that characterize PCGL as well as its administrative processes. These denote a trend towards the professionalization of part of the Board of Directors in relation to the succession process. In terms of succession, we also analyzed the institution s reproduction , a process that until now is under the charisma of its founder who administers his church with all the characteristics of a family business, within the gradient sect/church. Our conclusions demonstrate that the strategies which fostered the expansion of PCGL are based on its radios stations, its big rallies, its proselytism and its fund raising efforts that together feed and support the growth of the Pentecostal Church God is Love .(AU) / Procuramos demonstrar que a Igreja Pentecostal Deus é Amor - IPDA é uma Igreja, em expansão nas últimas cinco décadas. Nossa Dissertação de Mestrado indica que a IPDA elegeu a mídia radiofônica, seu jornal e suas próprias revistas para divulgar suas atividades. O estudo demonstra que a IPDA é alheia à política, não dá entrevistas às demais rádios, proíbe o uso da televisão e não atende jornalistas nem pesquisadores. Com base em nossa experiência de 11 anos de atuação na Igreja Pentecostal Deus é Amor , incluindo cinco anos como diácono, resgatamos detalhes que fornecerão subsídios aos meios acadêmicos e aos pesquisadores dos fenômenos pentecostais da atualidade. Ao cobrir certo espaço ainda não pesquisado pela academia, complementamos, por outro lado, dados que não constam da autobiografia de David Martins de Miranda, fundador da IPDA. Por fim, procuramos identificar características doutrinárias da IPDA e dos seus processos administrativos, que denotam certa tendência de profissionalização de parte da equipe da diretoria no processo sucessório. Abordamos, ainda, a questão da reprodução da instituição, mantida até aqui debaixo do carisma de seu fundador que vem administrando sua Igreja com todas as características de uma empresa familiar, dentro de um gradiente seita/igreja. Nossas conclusões demonstram as estratégias que permitiram a expansão da IPDA alicerçada nas suas rádios, nas suas grandes concentrações, no seu apelo proselitista e na arrecadação de recursos, fatores que alimentam e suportam o crescimento da Igreja Pentecostal Deus é Amor .(AU)

Orientador: Elda Rizzo de Oliveira. / Banca: Renata Medeiros Paoliello. / Banca: Denis Domeneghetti Badia. / Resumo: O tema desta Dissertação é a glossolalia. O dom de línguas - como a glossolalia é conhecida entre os pentecostais - é um modo de orar em que o fiel, em êxtase, se expressa através de uma linguagem aparentemente ininteligível, acompanhada por expressões corporais que produzem sentimentos de alegria, transbordamento, choro, riso, saltos e gestos. Esse dom é de importância central na Teologia Pentecostal por ser considerado, pelos crentes, a irrefutável evidência do batismo no Espírito Santo. Trata-se de um dom institucional e ritualístico, que se apresenta durante culto e se desenvolve na instituição - distintamente dos dons que ocorrem em processos relativamente autônomos, como é o caso das benzedeiras e curandeiros. Analiso o processo de aquisição e desenvolvimento da glossolalia dialogando com a Antropologia do Imaginário. Da compreensão de um mundo pautado por uma imponderabilidade, que motiva os fiéis pentecostais à uma busca de sentido para suas vidas em diversas agências religiosas, no modelo biomédico, entre outros, até as relações que o fiel desenvolve com um cosmo intencional, lugar mítico no qual o crente concebe a si mesmo como um eleito, alguém que se diferencia dos demais por possuir um dom e uma missão específica no mundo. Como parte da categoria dos eleitos, eles integram o mundo dos iniciados. / Abstract: The theme of this Dissertation is the glossolalia. The gift of tongues - how the glossolalia is know among the pentecostals - is a kind of pray that the belivers, in ecstasy, express themselves by means of an aparent unintelligible language, followed by body expressions of the sentiments of happiness, overflow, weeping, laughing, jumps and gesticulation. This gift is very important in the Pentecostal Theology because it is considerated, by the believers, the irrefutable evidence of the Holy Spirit baptism. It’s a ritualistic and institucional gift, that occurs durind the cult and develop itself in the institucion - it’s a distinctive form of gifts that occurs in relatives self-suficients process, like the faith-realers and the witch-doctors. I analyse the process of aquisicion and development of glossolalia dialoging with the Anthropology of Imaginary. That extend itself in a comprehension of an imponderable world, this world motivates a search for purpose in the diverses religious agencies, in the biomedic model, and others until the relations that the belivers develop with an intencional cosmos, mythic place on which the beliver conceives himself as a chosen one, somebody who is diferent from the others for having a gift and a specific mission in the world, and as part of the category of the chosen ones, he integrates the initiated’s world. / Mestre

Orientador : Maria Cecilia Sanchez Teixeira / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-07-27T16:13:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Wrege_RachelSilveira_D.pdf: 1336242 bytes, checksum: b03fbdb01fca95492b424a262a1b8bd9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2001 / Doutorado

Throughout the past five years a flood of international attention has been paid to Uganda. This focus has to do with the proposal, passage, and annulment of the Anti- Homosexuality Bill (AHB). In its original form, the AHB prescribed the death penalty for some acts of homosexuality, mandated prison sentences for the ‘promotion of homosexuality’, and required Ugandans to report ‘offenders’ to the authorities. Overwhelmingly the predominant frames found throughout the international press, attribute the Legislation to two main factors, the influence of the North American evangelical movement, and/or the ruling party—the National Resistance Movement—using local homophobia to obscure broader trends of restricting human rights and democratic freedoms. While both explanations have degrees of validity they underplay the tangible religiousity of the context, demonstrated in the discursive influence of the Ugandan Pentecostal-Charismatic (PC) movement, at the heart of the Legislation. Yet, PC influence is demonstrated far beyond the Legislation alone, and it is changing the nature of Ugandan politics, governance, and the formation of citizenship. This thesis examines the influence of PC discourse on processes of governance and citizenship by using the PC engagement with sexuality in the public sphere to understand its political impact. I argue that PC discourse in the public sphere—which functions by reinscribing the past, present, and future—reveals tensions in the Ugandan public sphere, the negotiation of citizenship, and perpetuates the indistinct boundaries between religion, politics, and governance. Through an extended ethnographic approach conducted at four local PC churches over the course of fourteens months in Kampala—including Miracle Centre, One Love, Watoto, and Covenant Nations—analysis of church-produced discourse collected through participant observations and interviews elucidates the impact of moral narratives on political governance and citizenship. In church-produced discourse homosexuality is positioned as inherently un-African, a practice learned from the West that undermines local tradition and morality, and is a threat to the up-and-coming generation charged with transforming the nation. Consequently, for the PC community the Legislation functions as a display of autonomy from Western influence, and a stride towards nation building by establishing a moral citizenry reflective of PC tenets of sexual purity, by a religious community that has taken on the role of development actor. The implications of the study cannot be understated. PC discourse has profound implications for Ugandans living outside of the bounds of PC identity. The AHB reflects the newfound political influence and impact of PC discourse in the public sphere. Consequently as members of the local lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) community, a community seen as incompatible with this newly aligned moral national identity, is rendered not to belong to Uganda. In turn the boundaries between the political and the religious are made more and more indistinguishable, and the Ugandan LGBTI community without a distinguishable country.

D.Litt. et Phil. / Africa has seen the convergence of many remarkable evangelism efforts from across the globe. As a result, Christianity has shown incredible growth in the entire continent of Africa during the past 100 years, becoming the religion of the masses, especially in Southern Africa (Johnstone & Mandryk 2001:21). It can be stated that the growth and success of Christianity in Africa have been nothing short of a miracle. This remarkable growth can only be ascribed to the extraordinary evangelism efforts in Africa during the past 100 years, and the favour of God on this work. The evangelism explosion in Africa has surely influenced many people; however, the Church still has various challenges pertaining to evangelism in South Africa. One of the problems that Christianity in South Africa is facing is that the quantitative growth of Christianity in a nation cannot be the only measurement of successful evangelism. The qualitative growth in a Christian‟s life is the sign of the strength of that person‟s Christianity. The long-term growth and sustainability of the Church and its potential to transform communities must therefore be carefully considered. Unless the Church deals with these quality issues, it could render all its evangelistic work worthless. Finding a balance between quality and quantity is imperative, as both are important to the development of the Kingdom of God. In addition to this, the low priority of training and discipleship in South Africa has caused the Church to develop a lack of leadership as well. Leadership development for Pastors, Evangelists and Churchplanters is imperative, as a lack of well-developed leadership will inevitably lead to a weak and shallow Church. The problem is that Christian leaders and evangelistic ministries 4 have not yet developed a comprehensive evangelistic approach that can present the Gospel in a relevant manner to the people of South Africa.This causes what I would term, the nominal “pre-Christianity” in Africa, and presents a major challenge to the Church in terms of evangelism and the completion of the Great Commission. I present the term “pre-Christian” as an expression of a person who considers himself a Christian without ever receiving the Saving grace of Christ, submitting that person‟s life under the Lordship of Jesus Christ and bearing the fruit of the Christian life. Africa therefore has many “Christians”, but very few born-again believers following Christ.

In the past 15 years, there has been a concerted ‘Pentecostalisation’ of university spaces in Africa. Despite enormous growth in Pentecostal Charismatic Church membership and activities on African university campuses, and its attendant implications for academic and everyday life, there is hardly any study that explores this phenomenon. Thus, little is known about the complex entanglements between religion, politics and the dynamics of the everyday within the university campus and how this mediates students’ subjectivities. This thesis examines the lived experiences and everyday lives of university students at the University of Zimbabwe (UZ). The thesis is based on the narratives of students drawn through a qualitative methodology and more particularly, through participant observation, semi-structured and in-depth interviews over 15 months. Findings in this study revealed that university students convert and sign-up for new Pentecostal Charismatic Churches (PCCs) because they were imagined as spaces through which young people could forge supportive economic and social networks. PCCs’ gospel of prosperity and ‘spiritual warfare’ technologies were also deeply attractive to students who were caught in the hopelessness and uncertainty wrought by the country’s protracted socio-economic and political crisis. In this context, PCCs cultivate a sense of hope and optimism. However, although new PCCs reconfigure young people’s orientation to the future, many PCC promises remain elusive. The entrance of PCCs onto this university campus has also lead to institutional conflict as new churches struggle against the entrenched historical privilege of mainline churches- and the political influence of their followers in university management. New PCCs on the UZ campus have also become heavily involved in student and national politics, which further complicates their relationship with the university and the state. This thesis demonstrate the extent to which faith permeates every aspect of university experience for those who subscribe to its Pentecostal forms. I argue in this thesis that these complex linkages between faith and university life are mediated by the wider politics of the country, including linkages between the state and the university.

This thesis examines the entanglements and interactions between OMG – a Charismatic Pentecostal Church and the post-colonial Zimbabwean state through an ethnographic analysis of church members' everyday lives. I focus on money and consumption, and make several arguments in an attempt to explain the rapid expansion of OMG. Whilst the study adopts a political economy approach in framing the conditions under which the church emerged, I place Pentecostal Charismatic belief and experience at the centre of the analysis. Money and commodity consumption have been creatively incorporated into OMG belief systems and doctrines at a time when the Zimbabwean economy is performing poorly, and poverty is an everyday reality for most of the population. The consumption of commodities has religious significance inasmuch as it is a critique of the post- independence government that has largely failed to improve the lives of Zimbabweans. In consuming commodities, OMG congregants set themselves apart from non-members and construct themselves as ‘blessed’ and thriving. I argue that the mismanagement of the postcolonial state has provided crevices and clefts through which OMG has emerged and grown as a proxy to the state by appropriating aspects of state and chieftaincy rituals. Secondly, OMG offers alternative social spaces for citizens to be - or to appear to be - upwardly mobile and construct a sense of common identity based on religion, history and belonging. / Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria 2019. / Human Economy Programme / University of Pretoria for the Post-Graduate Doctoral Bursary – Humanities / FlyHigher@UP grant / Anthropology and Archaeology / PhD / Unrestricted