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

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?...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Lopes, Marcelo
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2012
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Estadual de Maringá (UEM)
Repositorio:Acta Scientiarum. Human and Social Sciences (Online)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:periodicos.uem.br/ojs:article/18637
Acceso en línea:http://www.periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/ActaSciHumanSocSci/article/view/18637
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:pentecostalism
poverty
socio-political
theology
pentecostalismo
pobreza
sociopolítica
teologia
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Sumario: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.