A etnografia da “batalha” contra a tradição, a feitiçaria e os espíritos dos ancestrais entre os evangélicos de Maputo, Moçambique

• Ano de defesa: 2022
• Autor(a) principal: Tivane, Fernando Félix
• Orientador(a): Lanna, Marcos Pazzanese Duarte
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de São Carlos; Câmpus São Carlos
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Antropologia Social - PPGAS
• Palavras-chave em Português: Igrejas evangélicas; Maputo; Espíritos; Ancestrais; Englobamento
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CIENCIAS HUMANAS::ANTROPOLOGIA::ANTROPOLOGIA URBANA
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.ufscar.br/handle/20.500.14289/17339

This thesis explores, ethnographically, the meanings of “Christian born-again” and self-giving among pentecostal in Maputo, the capital of Mozambique. It argues that the pentecostal churches in Mozambique are encompassed by “traditional” practices (always associated with witchcraft and sorcery), which they fight daily, as they cause diseases and other afflictions in the lives of the faithful. This struggle, waged by the pentecostal churches, far from being a new phenomenon, it constitutes a continuation of a war once fought by the post-independence Mozambican socialist state under the leadership of the Frelimo Party, within the scope of the project of invention of the Homem Novo. In fact, there is an analogy between the Homem Novo of Frelimo socialism and the “born-again man” of pentecostal Christianity. This thesis was carried out from a qualitative approach and concludes that both the post-independence Mozambican state and the pentecostal churches are institutions encompassed by these “traditional” practices that they claim to fight.