Identidades religiosas na modernidade tardia: um estudo a partir da Seicho-no-Ie do Brasil em Goiânia

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2016-05-03

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Universidade Federal de Goiás

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From the assumption of the dialectical relationship between religion and modernity, we consider in this research the elements of the religious identity of the members of Seicho-no-Ie do Brasil in the city of Goiania. Operating in Brazil as universal religion since the 1960s, Seicho-no-Ie is one of the Japanese New Religions who has more evidence in Goiânia. Alongside other "religions of the true self" it set what we named as “circuit of religious psychotherapies ". We believe that the process of dilution of the taken for granted status of the traditional religious narratives and the weakening of institutional coercion devices promoted by the pluralization of life forms, both operated along modernity and radicalized in its late moment, created conditions for individuals to become the main validators of their religious experiences. Thus, the religious identity in question is the result of the multifaceted universe of contemporary times. Two striking features of the religious identity of the members of Seicho-no-Ie stood out throughout this research: the "spiritual empowerment" and "ecospirituality". Both express the way that modernity challenges the "religious imagination" of the subjects; on the one hand, the emphasis on the improvement of the "self" in order to reach a full life in this world, on the other the environmental concerns based on the feeling of inhabiting a common home. Both are intertwined and they are the main identity markers with which we deal with.

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SILVEIRA, João Paulo de Paula. Identidades religiosas na modernidade tardia: um estudo a partir da Seicho-no-Ie do Brasil em Goiânia. 2016. 210 f. Tese (Doutorado em Sociologia) - Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, 2016.