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- Title
De "Corações de Pedra" a "Corações de Carne": Algumas Considerações sobre a Conversão de "Bandidos" a Igrejas Evangélicas Pentecostais.
- Authors
Teixeira, Cesar Pinheiro
- Abstract
This article discusses several elements that allow understanding the conversion of "bandits" to Pentecostal Evangelical churches. The empirical material consisted basically of interviews with individuals who had "lived a life of crime" before converting to some Pentecostal denomination. The analysis is based on the idea of criminal subjection - meaning the social construction of the "bandit" as a subject. Criminal subjection is highlighted in the narratives of conversion. The study thus provides elements for understanding the construction of two identities that are strikingly present on the poor outskirts of Brazilian metropolitan areas and that constitute an important part of their daily reality: the "bandit" and the "believer".
- Subjects
BRAZIL; CONVERSION (Religion); EVANGELICAL churches; PENTECOSTAL converts; RELIGION &; sociology; METROPOLITAN areas
- Publication
Dados - Revista de Ciências Sociais, 2011, Vol 54, Issue 3, p449
- ISSN
0011-5258
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1590/S0011-52582011000300007