The “evangelical without borders”: History and evangelical religiosity in Londrina (Brazil)

Authors

  • Edson Elias de Morais Universidade Estadual de Londrina (UEL-PR)/Professor colaborador
  • Fabio Lanza Docente do Departamento e do Programa de Mestrado em Ciências Sociais da Universidade Estadual de Londrina - Paraná (UEL);

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4013/csu.2017.53.2.10

Abstract

This article examined how the peculiar process of evangelical religion occurred in Londrina and how this process reproduces the dynamics of the national religion in the specific historical context. From bibliographical, electronics, field and oral research, it was identified that the evangelical religious trajectory of Londrina took place in four phases: the first one is called “ecumenical”; the second, “institutional division”; the third, “new religiousness” and the fourth “borderless evangelical”. As a final result, we affirm that this contemporary phase has characteristics that can be extended to the national level, given that the doctrines no longer delimit a church from another and that the gospel style is present in most of them.

Keywords: Evangelical History, Evangelicals in Londrina, Paraná State, neopentecostal religiosity.

Author Biographies

Edson Elias de Morais, Universidade Estadual de Londrina (UEL-PR)/Professor colaborador

Mestre, Bacharel e Licenciado em Ciências Sociais pela Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Bacharel em Teologia pela Faculdade Teológica Sul Americana. Doutorando no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Sociais da UNESP de Marília SP. Professor colaborador do Departamento de Ciências Sociais da UEL.  E-mail: edson_londrina@hotmail.com

Fabio Lanza, Docente do Departamento e do Programa de Mestrado em Ciências Sociais da Universidade Estadual de Londrina - Paraná (UEL);

Doutor em Ciências Sociais (PUC-SP), graduado em Ciências Sociais (UNESP-Araraquara), professor adjunto do Departamento de Ciências Sociais e do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Sociais da UEL – Londrina/PR. Coordenador do Laboratório de Estudos sobre Religiões e Religiosidades da UEL PR. E-mail: lanza1975@gmail.com

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Published

2017-10-27

Issue

Vol. 53 No. 2 (2017): May/August

Section

Seção Temática: Religiões, normatividade e fluxos

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