Os evangélicos da IADJN e PIB-SG e a política

Abstract

The hereby dissertation attempts to accomplish a comparative analysis and illustrate how the Christian organisations here mentioned located in the city of São Gonçalo deal with political issues and motivate their member´s to participate in it, furthermore investigating the existance of official support to candidates by any means from the churches or their conventions, whether these candidates are commited to rule in favor of these churches, according to their dogmas and beliefs or not. The last point to be analysed is the position of the ConvençãoGeral das Assembleias de Deus in Brazil in the case of IADJN and of Convenção Batista Brasileira, which is connected to PIBSG. Investigating their perspectives toward the political involvement through the analysis of their religious publications, websites and other documents, such as their internal book of regulation to search for an official position concerning politics, if there are causes they wish to stand for, any connection to political parties or pressure upon the candidates from inside these groups to join a political party nominated by these groups. The second round of interviews in our analysis was done with the leadership inside these religious groups in attempt to portray theirs perspectives on the impact that political involvement could cause to their images, to understand the mechanisms to achieve power inside these institutions and how these religious groups are managed. Also elucidate member´s influences inside and pastors´ outlook to other christian conventions and religious associations, in order to figure out the existence of rivalry and to what extent it is taken, most specially if it gets to a political field with the support or guidance of candidates running for the elections. This essay analyse strictly the Igreja Assembleia de Deus in JardimNogueira (IADJN) and the Primeira Igreja Batista in São Gonçalo (PIBSG), by the use of two interviews. The first interview was done with their members to gather information about their time inside these religious institutions, the member´s attendance to the meetings at the temple, and their opinions on the entanglement between religion and politics. Also if there is inside these churches promotion to any political party, any guidance or projects to make use of public spaces in the city in favor of religious interests and the main influences to the membership vote.