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The healing powers of the deliverance ritual: An analysis of social cohesion in the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in Brazil.

Fennebeumer, Joëlle Nadja The healing powers of the deliverance ritual: An analysis of social cohesion in the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in Brazil. Bachelor thesis, Bachelor Religiewetenschappen.

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Abstract

This dissertation seeks to analyze how the deliverance ritual in the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in Brazil affects social cohesion through case studies both retrieved from secondary readings and virtual ethnographic fieldwork. It can be stated that this study aims to create a more comprehensive understanding of both the negative and positive effects of the deliverance ritual by considering personal accounts from Brazilians of different genders, ages, and backgrounds. While several individuals have claimed to experience intense feelings of gratitude, compassion, and acceptance after participating in the deliverance ritual, other devotees from the UCKG have claimed to feel embarrassed, scammed, and shunned after enduring the religious rite. Finally, building on a theoretical framework that consists of conceptions such as Victor Turner's rites of passage and Émile Durkheim's collective effervescence, it will be argued that through the practice of deliverance, social cohesion in the UCKG is reinforced in either positive or negative ways. In the study of Neo-Pentecostalism, a fast-grown embodiment of Christianity, sociologists could build on this research to consider what deliverance means for collective meaning-making in the UCKG and, thus, how participating in the rite affects church composition as well as the attitudes of individual devotees.

Type: Thesis (Bachelor)
Supervisors (RUG):
SupervisorE-mailTutor organizationTutor email
Carpenedo Rodrigues, M.Faculteit GGW, Christendom en Ideeengeschiedenism.carpenedo.rodrigues@rug.nl
Andrejc, G.Faculteit GGW, Christendom en IdeeengeschiedenisG.Andrejc@rug.nl
Degree programme: Bachelor Religiewetenschappen
Academic year: 2021-2022
Date of delivery: 25 Nov 2022 11:19
Last modified: 25 Nov 2022 11:19
URI: https://rcs.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/711
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