A expansão regional das redes de poder da Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus no Brasil

Abstract

Pentecostalism became the most significant religious phenomenon in Brazil of the second half of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, reverberating in its structure social, cultural, political and economic. The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (IURD), founded in 1977, by Bishop Edir Macêdo, although not a pioneer, was the main protagonist in this process, producing a new dynamic of expansion based on in the development and integration of multiple networks of power that have conventional religious field by conquering spaces in the upper production of the urban economy, and in particular in the media industry, interacting strongly with the Brazilian regional reconfiguration put in each period. Glimpsing the spatial constraints of expansion and capillarization the core of the thesis sought to show that the institutional and territorial development of the IURD in order to complete its the Brazilian territory, was structured adapted to the specific geographical conditions by the leadership of the Church (especially the expansion of technical information and circulation in the territory, and the normalization of the territory). In other words, the This thesis has always been attentive to the pace of social and technical marked the evolution of the differentiated integration process of the macro-regions Brazil, particularly in the period from 1990 to 2010, when the last frontier evangelism is crossed with its late, but intense presence in the North. The regional dispersion of the iurdianas networks was unveiled in the different infrastructural arrangements presented, among them, the networks of temples, broadcasters, and political party structure. All these subsystems made it possible to overcome the contingencies imposed by heterogeneities of socioeconomic development in the Brazilian regions, thus facilitating the control and mobilization of the flow of people and information, as well as access to the most remote areas of the Brazilian territory.