Espaço, cultura e religião: um olhar para o neopentecostalismo underground

Abstract

This dissertation concerns three major concepts/categories historically used in the human and social sciences as a whole: space, culture and religion. From a comprehensive and interpretative phenomenological perspective, the production of the neopentecostal sacred space was analyzed considering three dimensions: economic, political and of the place. It articulates, from the analyzes, categories advent of geographic science as space, territoriality, landscape and place. The methodological route has ethnographic inspiration, apprehending methodologies such as participant observation, field diary and semi-structured interviews. The empirical object comprises the religious institution contemporary neopentecostal, which emerged in Uberlândia, and which reveals a specific type of neopentecostalism, the underground. The synthesized results evidence denials by the believer and religious leaders of conservatism, asceticism and doctrinal aspects.