Pentecostalismo e cultura brasileira: para uma interpretação do pentecostalismo brasileiro a partir de sua relação com a cultura

Abstract

The present thesis tries to approach the relation of the Pentecostalism with the culture in Brazil from the perspective of the Science of Religion. The perception of religion as totality directs the focus of the thesis to the religious interpretation of the culture verified in the prism of this religious manifestation. The aim is to demarcate through an interpretative and meta-analytic methodology the Pentecostal worldview around culture in the way this relation has been expressed since the first modality of Pentecostalism that settled in autochthonous soil to the present moment, interpreting its attitudes towards the world. This is a bibliographical work in which the main paradigms that seek to explain this relationship will be debated together with a phenomenological interpretation of Pentecostal belief. In the end, an interpretative synthesis of the current relationship between Pentecostalism and culture will be carried out, taking as a parameter its recent transformations.