Projetos pentecostais: organizações religiosas como empreendimentos e pastores como empreendedores
Resumen
The relationship between religion and economics is a classic issue for the Social
Sciences, however it has been relegated to the background in recent times, whether
by adherents of the idea that religions have a secondary importance in the social
fabric, or by the irreversible separation of economics in relation to other social
sciences. Inserting itself in this tradition of studies, this dissertation intends to
contribute to the understanding of contemporary Pentecostalism as it is loaded with
an ethics that is very much in line with the idea of the self made man. This ideology
emerges as a response to recent changes in capitalism and in the labor market. A
central subject of this process in Pentecostalism, in addition to all adherents, is the
figure of the pastor, who, in our understanding, finds in the religious organization an
opportunity to make a career, undertaking, "opening his own church", as
recommended by the entrepreneurial “spirit”. Thus, for the development of the
present work, a bibliographic research was carried out, reaching theoretical
saturation in order to contemplate the background questions raised, as well as
resorting to the use of secondary data for its corroboration. As a form of analysis, we
critically frame the entrepreneurial ethos as a precarious response to an economicsocial
condition that is also precariously emerging. Far from being a definitive
reflection, we intend this to be the construction of a referential framework for future
empirical analyses.
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