NAVES ESPACIAIS, REENCARNAÇÃO E TRANSMUTAÇÃO: A LIBERTAÇÃO DO SOFRIMENTO EM MOVIMENTOS RELIGIOSOS BRASILEIROS CONTEMPORÂNEOS - DOI 10.5752/P.1983-2478.2014v9n16p330
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RESUMO
A contemporaneidade permite que diferentes referenciais culturais dividam os mesmos espaços geográficos e simbólicos, se combinem e se multipliquem. Como um dos resultados desse processo, emergem sistemas de crença-significado com características religiosas que são altamente “exóticos” e mesmo afrontosos diante das religiões hegemônicas, como aqueles relativos a alienígenas. Os grupos que os adotam evidenciam estar em franco crescimento, contendo dezenas, centenas ou mesmo milhares de membros. Esses novos sistemas apresentam respostas idiossincrásicas para questões como a liberação do sofrimento e a salvação da alma, cuja complexidade e apelo psicológico revelam nuances da contemporaneidade e merecem ser discutidos, como o resgate da dimensão psicológica do sobrenatural por pessoas cujos anseios não encontrariam resposta nas religiões hegemônicas e na ciência.
PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Religião. Contemporaneidade. Crenças. Sofrimento.
ABSTRACT
The contemporaneity allows that different cultural referentials divide the same geographical and symbolic spaces, combine and multiply themselves. As a result of this process, it emerges belief-meaning systems with religious characteristics that are highly “exotic” and even outrageous in the face of hegemonic religions, such as those related to aliens. The groups that adopt them show to be growing, containing tens, hundreds or even thousands of members. These new systems have idiosyncratic responses to issues such as liberation from suffering and salvation of the soul, whose complexity and psychological appeal reveal aspects of contemporaneity and deserve to be discussed, such as the rescue of the psychological dimension of the supernatural by people whose demands do not find answers in hegemonic religions and science.
Keywords: Religion. Contemporaneity. Beliefs. Suffering
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