“Fogo no encosto” ... porque “esta igreja vai subir”: uma análise dos discursos das canções comunitárias da Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus como expressões recontextualizadas da Religiosidade Matricial Brasileira

Abstract

This research deals with the analyze of the community singing’s content, the popular religious song, occurrent in the rituals of the religious group Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG), trying to identify in them the prevalence of the components and features of the Brazilian religious matrix. As assumptions, were considered the existence of a Brazilian religious matrix resulting from the confluence and amalgamation of indigene, Latin American and African cultures; the syncretization of those elements of the popular religion in the constitution of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG), in the evangelical-Pentecostal context, a fact which enabled its fast growth in the last decades; the reality of the use of community singing in an expressive and impressive way in the religious rituals; and the fact that the texts of religious songs are descriptions and precepts of a given community’s religiousness. To achieve the purpose it was necessary to define, evaluate and combine some analysis tools. The tools used were the analysis of the popular song proposed by Luiz Tatit, the analysis of the religious song proposed by Harry Eskew & Hugh McElrath and David Music & Milburn Price, the discourse analysis proposed by José Luiz Fiorin and Eni Puccinelli Orlandi, and the analysis of the symbolic forms proposed by Susanne K. Langer.