SILVA, R. G.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/0615645648179297; SILVA, Robson Gerliandro da.
Resumen:
This dissertation analyzes, in a sociological perspective, the experience of people who,
having strayed from the Assembly of God Bethlehem church in Caruaru-PE, returned to that
church and insert themselves again in the community. We try to understand what happens in
the return process of these ex-diverted to the church like, analyzing their reasons for
returning; the return institutional rituals; the difficulties that those returning members face in
the old/new context in which they fight for acceptation and the relationship between
permanent members and diverted returners. Using the concept of "stigma" and the metaphor
of the social drama by Erving Goffman, we examined the efforts of diverted returners to
represent their roles in order to convince the permanent members about their new conversion,
and, therefore, to be fully received into the church and have their privileges back. And,
besides that, we try to understand the identity formation of the Assembly of God Bethlehem
Church followers on theological aspect and its implications for their social experience, which
helps us to understand some aspects of the diverted Returner trajectories.