Entre (des)crer e (des)obeceder: uma análise das dinâmicas de construção da norma, do desvio e dos desviantes em comunidades da Assembleia de Deus/Ministério Missão, em Maceió/AL.

Abstract

This work aims to understand how the norm, deviation and deviants are constructed in the Assembly of God church, Mission Ministry in Maceió - Alagoas, taking as reference the transformation dynamics of the church's normative system. Starting from a comprehensive approach of Weber, we analyze the functioning of what we call “Assemblies cultural system”, its modus operandi. We discuss how the traditional Assembly modeling became possible and the processes of transformation of normativity and definition regimes of deviance, seeking to understand the experiences related to deviation from an intentional sample of subjects from religious communities in the aforementioned subfield, stratified by sex, age group, education, institutional position and type of congregation in which they participate. As data collection techniques, we used structured and semi-structured interviews, direct and participant observation and the analysis of the selected subjects' trajectories and the researcher's case. For the analysis of the deviation, we used Becker's approach, carrying out a multivariate study of the deviation in AD/MM, focusing on relational, contextual and situational aspects of it. Among the main conclusions, we highlight the following: (1) the family and religious relationships of the faithful are permeated by the construction of perceptions around the deviation, which activate, on the one hand, the labeling of behaviors, and, on the other, lines of escape from orthodoxy through the affirmation of individualities that denaturalized models of religiosity understood as harmful to the experience of the 'gospel', to the relationship with God and of individuals with themselves; (2) the recourse to rationality, the valorization of science and theological studies has changed the profile of the assemblies regarding the production and reception of institutional messages in general and specifically regarding to the norms and deviation