Faith fuel: social-economical change and religious reorganization in Macae, RJ

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Leonardo Gonçalves de Alvarenga
Fabio Py Murta de Almeida

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the social-economical changes which took place in Macae after 1980 and their effects on religious field, focusing in Evangelical and Non-religious people. The methodology uses quantitative data from IBGE and intends to analyze these data to exceed a superficial reading and advance on the depth of the complex religious field which is directly related to the arrival of Petrobras in town. On this sense, the urban development which took place due to multinational Petrobras impact, in Macae region, causing the creation of different markets, investment opportunities, making religious organizations remodel on a new setting in Macae’s religious field. To reach such goal, we base our analysis on Daniele Hervieu-Leger’s social thought, when she recognizes that modernity and urbanization are directly related with new social-religious changes and social-religious modulations.  

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ALVARENGA, Leonardo Gonçalves de; ALMEIDA, Fabio Py Murta de. Faith fuel: social-economical change and religious reorganization in Macae, RJ. HORIZONTE - Journal of Studies in Theology and Religious Sciences, Belo Horizonte, v. 17, n. 52, p. 389–413, 2019. DOI: 10.5752/P.2175-5841.2019v17n52p389-413. Disponível em: https://periodicos.pucminas.br/horizonte/article/view/P.2175-5841.2019v17n52p389. Acesso em: 12 sep. 2025.
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Leonardo Gonçalves de Alvarenga, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo

Leonardo Alvarenga*

alvarengag2@gmail.com

 

* Pós-doutoramento em Sociologia Política pela UENF/FAPERJ. É doutor em Ciência da Religião pela PUC-SP. E-mail: alvarengalg2@gmail.com

Fabio Py Murta de Almeida, É professor convidado do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Políticas Sociais da Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense Darcy Ribeiro (UENF). Autor do livro: Crítica à baixa ecologia, São Leopoldo e São Paulo: Cebi e Fonte Editorial, 2015). É editor da Revista Plura – periódico da Associação Brasileira de História das Religiões (Abhr). E-mail: pymurta@gmail.com.

Professor convidado do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Políticas Sociais da Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense Darcy Ribeiro (UENF)