Modos de religiosidade juvenis no catolicismo contemporâneo: um estudo comparativo de jovens católicos carismáticos e não carismáticos, em Bezerros-PE.

Abstract

The present work intends to understand how religious belonging is built in two groups of young Catholics of the municipality of Bezerros-PE, the youth group of the main church, and the prayer group called ‘Rescue’, constituted as a group of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, which meets weekly in the chapel of Nossa Senhora do Rosário. It is analyzed how these young people seek the sacred, their conceptions about the categories sin and holiness, and how they relate between the traditionalism of the Catholic Church and the influence of the Pentecostal elements on them. For this, we use the weberian perspective, based on the concept of intramundane asceticism, which is very present in the doctrinal essence of the Evangelical Pentecostal, Neo-Pentecostal and in the CCR (Carismatic Catholic Renewal) Movement. We carried out a systematic frequency in both groups and a set of structured interviews with catholic young individuals, stratified by participation in the ‘Rescue’ group. Among the main conclusions of this word we point out to the following: (1) the diversity of catholicity models existing in the parish of Bezerros creates disputes for spaces of youth protagonism; (2) the engagement of young people in the respective Catholic groups studied occurs, mostly as a refuge to meet the individual demands very characteristic of postmodernity; and (3); The presence of Pentecostal elements within Catholicism is a point of attraction for young people but also as an elicitor of conflicts between models of Catholic religiosity.