A Igreja Messiânica Mundial no Brasil entre 1970 e 1980: análise de experiências e trajetórias de ministros brasileiros

Abstract

I study in this Master´s thesis the experiences and trajectories of ministers of the World Messianic Church (IMM), a New Japanese Religion (NRJ). Leaders actively engaged in IMM in the city of Rio de Janeiro between the 1970s to 1980s, when this church grew most in Brazil, were interviewed. The analysis of the interviews reveals how the markers of gender, ethnicity and social class intersect within the institution's priestly hierarchy. To better understand this process in the trajectories of the ministers, I adopt the perspective of sociology on an individual scale by Bernard Lahire and present three biographical essays and through them I analyze the lives of pioneer ministers. Elements of these unique cases of “social in a flexed state” were used for the critical analysis, with a socio-historical bias, of the processes of “cultural translation” and the conflicts / cultural shocks resulting from the transplantation of IMM to Brazil.