Word multiplying: the role of old reading practicies in the religious contemporary movements

  • Wander de Lara Proença UNESP

Abstract

Neopentecostalism has been defined as a religious movement, which was denominationally termed in the 70s in Brasil and from the Classical Petecostalism in the USA in the 20th century. Can we comprehend or explain how neopentecostal denominations could conquer millions of Brazilians in twenty years tima? This had happened because biblical reading has an important role about these actions in the Neopentecostalism in oredr to establish the collective behavior and configure a fertile cultural past.

Author Biography

Wander de Lara Proença, UNESP
Doutorando em História pela Universidade Estadual paulista - UNESP. Professor da Faculdade Teológica Sul Americana, em Londrina-PR
Published
2007-07-26
Section
Artigos Originais