Processos de conversão ao movimento Hare Krishna em Campina Grande-PB e as hipóteses weberianas sobre a relação entre religião e sociedade.

Abstract

This dissertation aimed to identify social and demographic profiles of converts to Hare Krishna Moviment in the city of Camina Grande-CG, moreover to describe the processes that compound this model of conversion, with the major objective to putting into question the Weberian hypothesis of association between social stratification and religious affiliation, besides his more generalist hiphothesis about the inflluence of the linking to religious ethics and its resonance on the meaning of daily practices of converts. Our methodology consisted of participant observation in the meetings and daily at the Hare Krishna Community in Campina Grande-PB; in data on trajectories of converts; the application of 39 questionnaires with components of households in Naimisharanya Houses Complex and with students of the Jaladuta Institute during the academic year 2014. We also carryied out 14 semi-structured interviews with a non-random sample of converts, composed of individuals-type.