"Eu discordei de um cara": um estudo sobre gênero e pentecostalismo na Assembleia de Deus em Boa Esperança - Santarém/PA

Abstract

This paper aims to question the leadership spaces occupied by women in the Assembly of God. This church was founded in 1911 in the capital of Pará by the Swedish missionaries Daniel Berg, Gunnar Vingren and Frida Strandberg, responsible for the introduction of Pentecostal doctrine in Brazil. Currently present in all Brazilian states, it is an institution within which androcentrism reigns and the gender of the faithful designates its functions. Believing that the woman was created to help the man, the church gives her roles as collaborator, not protagonist, and all ministerial positions are assigned to men. Given this, the research questions: i) how gender relations, as an instance of power, act in the church; ii) how the Pentecostal woman observes the place she occupies and; iii) how it deals with androcentrism in the church. Seeking to develop a scribe, as proposed by Conceição Evaristo, the Christian community of which i am a member, whose headquarters is in Boa Esperança, in the rural area of the municipality of Santarém, Pará, was delimited as an ethnographic field of research. It develops through dialogue with members of the prayer circle of married women in the church, and the “ethnographic findings” are analyzed in the light of the theoretical framework of gender studies and Pentecostalism.