SILVA, L. F. L.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/0980037872225603; SILVA, Lamara Fabia Lucena.
Abstract:
In this Dissertation we discuss the influence exerted by social and institutional factors on the
religious mobilization at the Community of Marinho, Paraiba, Brazil. We adopt as theoretical
perspective the contributions of Weber and other authors on processes of secularization and
the Religious Market Paradigm as formulated by Peter Berger and a group of American
sociologists leaded by Rodney Stark, which purpose an analysis of the religious mobilization
in terms of the fitting between the supply and the demand of religious models in a determined
social space. The methodology we used included a questionnaire answered by an intentional
sample of inhabitants of the Marinho Community; a set of interviews with local religious
leaders and parishioners, besides the direct observation on the day-by-day life of the
community and its religious celebrations. As main outcomes of our work we point out the
following: (1) There is a discrepancy between the religious demand of parishioners and the
religious products The Catholic Church and The Congregational Church offer in the
Marinho's Community; (2) Institutional fragilities as low human capital - in terms of priests
and pastors - can explain de process of religious demobilization regarding to Catholicism and
Congregationalism at the community studied; (3) the increasing in the religious mobilization
regarding to Pentecostalism in the Ville and Adjacencies of Marinho can be explained by the
fitting between their religious messages and the need of inhabitants of the areas cited and as
well by the constancy of their religious leaders presence in the individuals everyday; and (4)
The stigmatisation resulted of the apartheid between the inhabits of the Street and those of
the Ville can also helping in the understanding the relative religious demobilization related to
traditional religiosities, whose temples and investments are held on the Street.
