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| Author(s): |
Clayton da Silva Guerreiro
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas |
| Defense date: | 2022-12-13 |
| Examining board members: |
Ronaldo Almeida;
Nashieli Rangel Loera;
Teresa Cruz e Silva;
Devaka Premawardhana;
Rodrigo Toniol;
Omar Ribeiro Thomaz
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| Advisor: | Ronaldo Almeida |
| Abstract | |
This thesis describes the relationality surrounding the presence of Brazilian churches and missionaries in Maputo, Southern Mozambique, paying special attention to the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God. I begin with the assumption that these actors constitute and are constituted through different ways of being in relation to other traditional or religious practices and their followers, such as tinyanga (traditional doctors) and the Zion prophets (African Independent Churches). This follows from entangled relations between human and non-human actors. I also suppose that the main features of these relationalities are the power and resource asymmetries that are materially visible, and the operationalization of civilizatory magic reproduced by Brazilian missionaries and pastors. It is an ideology elaborated in the colonial past, improved by the Prosperity Gospel, and expressed in an aesthetic that mirrors traditional practices. The Brazilian pastors and missionaries promise the solution of social problems through the war against spirits and "tradition", even though the churches are engaged in social assistance, formation of sociability networks, and public discussions in search of "effective peace". This relationality contributes to the expansion of social tensions and the asymmetries of power and resources that characterize the city of Maputo (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 17/24663-0 - Universal devil and local spirits: the work of the Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus in Maputo, Southern Mozambique |
| Grantee: | Clayton da Silva Guerreiro |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |