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

• Ano de defesa: 2016
• Autor(a) principal: Silveira, João Paulo de Paula
• Orientador(a): Sofiati, Flávio Munhoz
• Banca de defesa: Sofiati, Flávio Munhoz, Moreira, Alberto da Silva, Lima Filho, Manuel Ferreira, Silva, Maria da Conceição, Guerriero, Silas
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Goiás
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-graduação em Sociologia (FCS)
• Departamento: Faculdade de Ciências Sociais - FCS (RG)
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: Seicho-no-Ie do Brasil; Modernidade; Novas religiões japonesas; Goiânia
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Seicho-no-Ie do Brasil; Modernity; Japanese new religions; Goiânia
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CIENCIAS HUMANAS::SOCIOLOGIA
• Link de acesso: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/6045

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.