Pós-protestantismo: descrição e análise de um caso de dissidência religiosa na comunidade rural Noiva do Cordeiro, em Belo Vale, MG

Abstract

Noiva do Cordeiro is a rural community in Minas Gerais that forged an alternative way of life, radical and sustainable, which includes women's political leadership, asset sharing, working together, abolition of civil marriage, and the end of religion. Begun in 1891 with Dona Senhorinha de Lima, who would be excommunicated by the Catholic Church and socially rejected for having decided to leave an arranged marriage to live with another man, going through a period of forty years of isolated and austere community life in Evangelical Church Noiva do Cordeiro, the collective decision to abandon all forms of religion, in 1991, to reach the distinctive way of life today, the story of Noiva do Cordeiro is charged events and characters paradigmatic schisms and ruptures. In addition to presenting the history of the community, this article presents sociological theories and theological explanations for this post-religious, post-evangelical and post-social moment that the community is living, especially the thought of Paul Tillich, Karl Jaspers and Alain Touraine, their concepts of Protestant Principle, Constitution of subjects, and Being-itself.