Gender strategies in a diasporic context: the case of the Brazilian Pentecostal Missionaries in Barcelona.

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Published: Sep 30, 2015
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5752/P.2175-5841.2015v13n39p1375
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migration, Brazilian missionaries, gender, Pentecostalism, Barcelona.

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Donizete Rodrigues
Universidade de Coimbra- Portugal
Marcos de Araújo Silva
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco

Abstract

The religious revival of the 'North' (Europe), developed by Pentecostal missionaries of the 'South' (Latin America - Brazil, in particular), in the context of the 'reverse mission', is a dynamic process and in significant expansion. From a localized ethnography - conducted between November 2011 and April 2012 - this article analyzes the work of evangelization and gender strategies developed by two emblematic and differentiated Brazilian neo-Pentecostal religious movements, in the metropolitan area of Barcelona (Spain): the evangelical and transnationalised Universal Church of the Kingdom of God and the Catholic Charismatic Renewal group Raboni Ajaray. From a comparative anthropological study of the daily life of these two religious groups, it discusses how a "feminized" and "manly" character, respectively, define important boundaries between Catholics and evangelicals. The ethnographic data demonstrate how certain characteristics of immigrants can act as a source of social differentiation that fosters opportunities and specific doctrinal strategies for men and women, in a context of diaspora.

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RODRIGUES, Donizete; SILVA, Marcos de Araújo. Gender strategies in a diasporic context: the case of the Brazilian Pentecostal Missionaries in Barcelona. HORIZONTE - Journal of Studies in Theology and Religious Sciences, Belo Horizonte, v. 13, n. 39, p. 1375–1409, 2015. DOI: 10.5752/P.2175-5841.2015v13n39p1375. Disponível em: https://periodicos.pucminas.br/horizonte/article/view/P.2175-5841.2015v13n39p1375. Acesso em: 1 oct. 2025.
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Vol. 13, no. 39, July/Sept. 2015 - Dossier: Gender and Religion
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Author Biographies

Donizete Rodrigues, Universidade de Coimbra- Portugal

Doctorate at Antropologia from Universidade de Coimbra (1991). Has experience in Antropology, focusing on Antropology

Marcos de Araújo Silva, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco

PhD in Anthropology from the Federal University of Pernambuco and was Visiting Researcher at the Università di Roma La Sapienza, the Urban University, Universitat de Barcelona Universitat Rovira and i Virgili (Spain). He is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Graduate Program in Sociology of UFPE, developing a related research to NUCEM and NESG (Center on the Global South epistemologies), research Groups registered with the CNPq and linked to the Department of Sociology at the UFPE. It is also Member of the Brazilian Anthropological Association since 2008 and coordinator of a Working Group of the Latin American Association of Sociology (ALAS). He has books, book chapters and articles published in Argentina, Brazil and Europe. As a result of their research and its collaborative work with the Brazilian community in Catalonia, received in 2011 the Prize "Pere Casaldáliga" from the Consulate General of Brazil in Barcelona. Regularly participates in events in Brazil and abroad, presenting papers and participating in conferences and symposia. Has experience in the area of Social Sciences (teaching and research), with emphasis on Globalization, International Relations and Welfare State Policies, acting on the following topics: 1) Transnational Migration, 2) Public Policy in the European Union, 3) Health, Gender and Sexuality 4) Information Technology and social Media: 5) Religious Transnationalism, 6) Ethnographies of Capitalism, Urban development and sustainability in Latin American cities and 7) Social Thought in Latin America and the Mediterranean region.