In conversation with God: the construction of "self" from Pentecostal women. / Em diálogo com Deus : a construção de self entre mulheres pentecostais.

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2007

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This dissertation has as its principal objective the process of construction of the self among Pentecostal women who have experienced affliction (groups of the first and second generations). It is the women, being the majority in the churches, and also, perhaps, by their own preference, who are responsible for a good part of the healing services developed in the Pentecostal agencies through gifts. In the case of the women the acquisition of the gifts is connected to a project of dedication to Gods work. This acquisition has implications directly in everyday life; from the desire to go out to preach, the faithful employ the steps to widen the narrow world of the house for the world of the street. The Pentecostal career of the women with regard to the acquisition of the gifts seems to be implicated also in the reconstruction of the self. Self is here understood as self-consciousness, being a sociocultural product because: a) human experience happens in a social environment, in intimate and continuous contact with other human beings; b) self-consciousness occurs from the acquisition of a language and c) the content given to the world of socially articulated objects is produced pari passu with self-consciousness (Hallowell 1954). The objective was: a) To understand the relations of women in the sphere of Pentecostalism: the distinct living spaces, the relation of power which involves these women; b) To analyze how the women appropriate the symbolic capital of the religious group; c) To analyze religious experience, the somatic modes of attention which configure the relation with the sacred. d) To identify from the construction of the self the modes of transmission and religious learning in the role of the distinct generations in the management of discourse and bodily techniques. Methodological Synthesis. Phase I At the beginning of the research a set of questions was introduced, questions presented to religious leaders, with the principal objective of making a first sounding. This was followed by an extensive questionnaire applied to the members of the chosen churches. This questionnaire was based on discussions and experiences of the research group coordinated by Prof. Miriam Rabelo in ECSAS. This questionnaire was important for the comprehension of the dynamic worldview of the Pentecostal group as well as being essential for the selection of the followed cases. Phase II The administration of open interviews based on person-centered ethnography (PCE) according to the methodological principles of Hollan (1998), Robert Levy (1994) and with the course given by Cravalho (1998). According to Cravalho the methodology consists principally of a series of recorded and filmed interviews with a small and non-random sample of persons, with special attention to the modulation between informant and respondent modes during the interview. In the informant mode, the interviewee reports to the anthropologist-interviewer about the culture and behavior of a specific place and in the respondent mode the interviewee becomes the object (Cravalho 1998). Results: A description was made of the process of construction of the self among Pentecostal women focusing on sociocultural and power relations deployed among women within their living spaces, emphasizing the importance of religious symbolic capital from the experience of self, indicating the somatic modes of attention in the relations with the sacred. The modes of transmission and religious learning in the role of the women in the management of discourse, bodily techniques were identified from the construction of the self.

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pentecostalismo conceito de si sociologia concept of self women pentecostalism mulheres

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