<b>Blessed are the ‘poor’; because they reign (at least) in ‘pentecostalism’</b> - doi: 10.4025/actascihumansoc.v34i2.18637

  • Marcelo Lopes Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora
Keywords: pentecostalism, poverty, socio-political, theology

Abstract

Pentecostalism is a religion by the extracts more feedback from socially disadvantaged population: the poor. So far nothing new, Antonio Gouvêa Mendonça and Ricardo Mariano, for example, has pointed to this reality. But why is that? If so, what are the affinities between Pentecostalism and poverty? In this sense, this test becomes relevant, as it seeks to shed light on some issues underlying this reality. For this reason, attempts by means of two approaches, a socio-political and other theological correlate phenomena, characteristics and affinities with the aim of much questioning the subject and provoke the reader and whet his curiosity about the subject on screen than be entered totalizing answers.

 

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Author Biography

Marcelo Lopes, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora
Mestrando em Ciência da Religião (Ciências Sociais da Religião) pelo Programa de Pós-graduação em Ciência da Religião da Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Pós-graduado em Ciências da Religião pela Faculdade de São Bento do Rio de Janeiro e Bacharel em Teologia pela Faculdade Evangélica de Tecnologia, Ciências e Biotecnologia da CGADB. Militar da ativa do Exército Brasileiro.
Published
2012-12-13
How to Cite
Lopes, M. (2012). <b>Blessed are the ‘poor’; because they reign (at least) in ‘pentecostalism’</b&gt; - doi: 10.4025/actascihumansoc.v34i2.18637. Acta Scientiarum. Human and Social Sciences, 34(2), 141-146. https://doi.org/10.4025/actascihumansoc.v34i2.18637
Section
Social Sciences