O comércio de indulgências na contemporaneidade, através da doutrina da prosperidade, pela Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus (1992-2015).

Abstract

This work has as general objective to investigate the construction of certain practices similar to the commerce of indulgences in the contemporaneity by Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (IURD). Demonstrating such practices from the analysis of an existing connection between faith, money, and power, using books, criminal cases, videos and reports, against the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God. I have as theoretical parameters Michel de Pêcheux (2010), who built a method of automatic discourse analysis based on linguistics and Michel Foucault, to exemplify how the social institutions create and control certain forms of discourse and prevent the manifestation of others, demonstrating how the discourse can be a form of power (FOUCAULT, 2004).