Name: Gustavo Moulin Gouvêa
Type: MSc dissertation
Publication date: 05/07/2019
Advisor:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| Igor Suzano Machado | Advisor * |
Examining board:
| Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| Diogo Silva Corrêa | External Examiner * |
| Eliana Santos Junqueira Creado | Internal Examiner * |
| Igor Suzano Machado | Advisor * |
| Patrícia Pereira Pavesi | Internal Alternate * |
| Vitor Amorim de Angelo | External Alternate * |
Summary: The purpose of this work is to analyze the religious conversion of traffickers who live at Bairro da Penha in the city of Vitória-ES considered one of the most violent hoods of the Espirito Santo´s capital, through the membership at Operando Deus Church, a Pentecostal evangelical organization that is a reference in the life changing of criminals and drug addicts in the district. Through the methods of participant observation, semi-structured interviews, life narratives, ethnographic data, and through being affected in the context, we aim to understand how that church succeed to reach that public and put into practice their methods and strategies in order to work the resocialization of that people, transforming them and consolidating their ethical and moral principles and, consequently, their conduct. The Gift Theory is used do explain the permanent exchanges that are the condition of existence of the structure and of the conversion process; interactionism is utilized to understand the building of the new identities within the new social group; and the career notions will aid in the understanding of the new roles of the individuals that, faithful do the structure, maintain, consolidate and develop their new identity, enabling hierarchical progression.
Keywords: religious conversion; traffickers; evangelicals; Bairro da Penha.
