Abstract
From a doctoral research based on the theoretical and methodological construction of the Feminist Sociology of Religion, the referent text presents a discussion about power and domination of gender in the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God. The study adopts the religion as a sociological problem in order to raise some discussion points from the construction process and articulation of the relationship between power and gender resistance in religion. The doctoral thesis researched three major Pentecostal churches and found that in all of them the official discourse reproduces the view that the physical skills of becoming pregnant makes physically unable to take positions and power activities in the church than men. This judgment strengthens the association between male domination and religious power because it reinforces the community's own complicity and thus continue tolerating that men benefit from this argument to legitimize their positions of power in the church. From the notion of innate fragility of women the church keeps on the margins of competition for religious status. The founding elements of the feminine nature show that men do not want to lose the attention and personal services that are still accustomed to receive from their mothers, wives or sisters. So, weaken this ideology would open the possibility of losing this style of women, because this empowerment process would allow conquer spaces and rights usually enjoyed only by men. Therefore, this text aims to present some daily practices of resistance and insubordination to social relationships that insist on keeping the Pentecostal to domestic and family sphere, in other words, distant from the pulpit and church spheres of power .
Highlights
From the incorporation of the gender category, this text seeks to understand part of the invisible history of Pentecostal women, especially pastors' wives
“mulher sem nome”, consiste na incorporação de responsabilidades inerentes à atuação desta categoria feminina, isto é, incorporar a aceitação da negação de direitos próprios do gênero feminino e a aquisição de esquemas de percepção e de classificação que servem como orientadores de suas ações junto aos membros da Igreja e na sociedade (BANDINI, 2014, p. 124)
Revista Estudos Sociológicos, Araraquara, v.18, n.34, p.77-100, jan./jun. 2013
Summary
A partir da incorporação da categoria de gênero, o presente texto busca compreender parte da história invisível das mulheres pentecostais, especialmente, mulheres esposas de pastores. O estudo abre um leque de possibilidades de análises críticas em torno das demais igrejas pentecostais e suas relações com as diferentes formas de estruturação do poder. O referente texto parte do trabalho empírico realizado na Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus e comprova que apesar desta igreja buscar uma identidade atrelada ao mundo moderno, seu discurso oficial continua fortalecendo a noção de que a aptidão física de engravidar torna as mulheres fisicamente incapazes de assumir altos cargos na igreja. Desta forma, a igreja mantém as mulheres à margem da competição pelo status religioso enquanto reforça os elementos fundantes da ideologia da natureza feminina. O objetivo deste estudo é reconhecer que as relações de poder dizem respeito a todas as esferas da sociedade, inclusive, as instituições religiosas
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