A visão celular no modelo dos 12: um estudo da estratégia de expansão da Igreja Ministério Internacional da Restauração em Santarém

Abstract

The present study examines the expansion strategy of Evangelical churches in cells, from the vision of 12 model cell in church Ministry, International in Santarém-Pará. With this study it was possible to notice that the ressignification of the domestic worship, through the cells in the M12, systematized the work of this group, creating a strategy of inclusion and increasing influence on Evangelical city of Santarém from the houses. Field observations and conversations with some interlocutors was unable to reflect the light of Berger (1985) the cell vision as "a world-building enterprise", where this religious organization or its members are also created by this model of cell. And in the process of building world, they adopt a kind of motto, which they name as the ladder of success (win, consolidate, disciple and send) and all this allowed us to think about the importance of religion as a sense of reality. Using as a reference the idea of the article "the Brazilian religious transit” of Almeida and Monteiro (2001), it was possible to analyze the cells in the M12 as one of several ways of being in the world of cellular vision, and with that show the presence of a permanent process of reinvention, rearticulation, metamorphoses, the poems of cell movement and differentiation. In addition, through the life story of one of our interlocutors, to think of how notes emerged the trajectory of these leaders that religious institution performs a kind of moral, i.e. reordering of how the conversion supports the life of the people. From this study it was possible to think of social categories based by anthropology seeking so interpret the relationships between the religious and the social sphere.