Bênção ou maldição: da resignação ao trabalho como mecanismo de acesso ao consumo

Abstract

The Pentecostalism has been highlighted in the Brazilian social scene as huge media visibility and policy from the 1990s. In this period there is the intensification of economic and cultural globalization. Are significant changes occur in the relations of production, in the representations of the world of work and consumption in this context. The dynamics of the market economy gain greater prominence. Emphasis will be given more to the sphere of consumption rather than production.This thesis seeks to observe how the Brazilian Pentecostalism live with these changes and develop significant representations to them. Unlike the model that promotes a Weberian Protestant ethos, this thesis show that Pentecostalism present on the life and work three distinct ethoi: the ethos of the rejection, the ethos of mediation and the ethos of achievement. These three ethoi reveal a gradient in, that would moves from a relative appreciation of the work to a full membership of the contemporary consumerist ideology.