A Recepção da Noção de Pureza na Experiência Religiosa de “Obreiros” Evangélicos

Abstract

This article has as objective to verify as notions of purity and impurity that appears in the religious experience and the discourse of the evangelical workers. For this, in the first part of the article we made a historical-literary rising of the senses attributed to the purity/impurity in texts that compose Old and New Testament of the Hebraic and Christian Bible. After that, we talked about the uses of those categories in agreement with the historical Protestantism and, finally, we confronted those data with interviews accomplished with workers of the Igreja Internacional da Graca (IIG) and Assembleia de Deus. Unlike what it proposes the historical (or classic) Protestantism, the interpretation experience, uses and habits of the group with which we accomplished that research, demonstrated fluidity and creativity in the appropriation and reverse-significance of those semantic fields.