Estratégias de doutrinação pentecostal e as táticas de resistências das crianças em um contexto rural de Santa Vitória do Palmar – RS (1990-2024)

Abstract

This thesis presents the results of a research that aimed to analyze how children from Agropecuária Canoa Mirim, who participate in the Evangelization Group of the Pentecostal Church of Filadélfia, create resistance tactics through their cultures in the face of Pentecostal indoctrination strategies directed at them, between 1990 and 2024, based on the following guiding question: What are the Pentecostal indoctrination strategies produced and used in the Pentecostal Church of Filadélfia to evangelize children at Agropecuária Canoa Mirim? To answer this question, analyses through documentary research and an ethnographic approach were considered. The research was carried out in the Evangelization Group of the Pentecostal Church of Filadélfia, with participatory observations also in church services, transcription of posts from their social networks, interviews with leaders of the Religious Institution and groups of children, filming and detailed description of the data in the Field Diary, which had as an investigative focus to identify: i) indoctrination strategies; ii) children's resistance tactics. The theoretical assumptions that guided the data analysis considered, mainly in the field of childhood sociology: Abramowicz (2018), Corsaro (2011), Sarmento (2006), Cohn (2005), Delgado & Muller (2005) as theoretical references. In their study of Pentecostalism, sociologists Macedo (2007) and Mariano (2004) drew on Pierre Bourdieu (1974, 1975, 2002, 2003 and 2007) and the studies of Michael De Certeau (1994, 1996, 2011) regarding power relations. The results of this research demonstrated that although the indoctrination strategies employed by the church were linked to power and symbolic capital, children were not passive. On the contrary, they adapted these strategies to their own interests, reinterpreting them creatively and questioning the indoctrination in a convincing manner. This capacity for appropriation and reinterpretation allowed children to develop subtle resistance tactics, challenging control, norms and established rules. Thus, the indoctrination strategies aimed at children triggered an active response from them, creatively resisting as a mechanism of opposition to the church's actions.