Alcoolismo, pentecostalismo e família: conversão, mudanças sistêmicas nas relações familiares e recuperação de alcoólicos

Abstract

This research aims to address the process of conversion to pentecostalism as a important rearrangement to familiar sistem, specially for alcoholic ones. The basic point is to see the family as a sistem, according to the Gregory Bateson's ecossistemic epistemology. Taken his theory as starting point allows us to have a rich approach regarding modern pentecostal families. Moreover, it was the basis for our ethnograph, that we have done with three different alcoholic families - the ones that alcoholism is seen as a clinic issue, the one that join Al-Anon, a branch of anonymous Acoholic and a group of families that became pentecostalists. The comparison between those differents families and their dinamics take to homeostasis, changing of first level or to evolution, changing in the second level. Our goal is to establish a pattern of comparison able to defend - by contrasting clinical threatment or approach - that the changing that had happened in the pentecostal familiar pattern has its efficacy through the redefinition of alcoholic familiar epistemology. The research is, therefore, an analisys of the shifting of familiar patterns under a relacional perspective.