Religious experiences among brazilian migrants
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Experiência religiosa, Migração, Brasileiros na Flórida, EUAAbstract
The migratory context may offer favorable conditions to intensify religiousness, even though there is no deterministic relation in it. In this paper, based on a research undertaken with Brazilians immigrants in South Florida, we analyze the multiple forms through which they live their religious experiences. For them, churches represent networks of self-support, social spaces, re-affirmation of national identity, as well as a collective expression of faith. However, despite the significant role of clerical participation, religious experience cannot be reduced to just that: it is also present in day-to-day life, as a “lived religion”, conditioning concrete ways of living; and, in extreme cases, it may even imply in full negation of institutional commitment, although faith is kept through other expressions.
Keywords: Religious experience; Migration; Brazilians in Florida; USA
O contexto migratório pode oferecer condições favoráveis para intensificar a religiosidade, ainda que não exista uma relação determinante. Nesse texto, a partir de uma pesquisa com imigrantes brasileiros no sul da Flórida, analisamos as múltiplas formas através das quais eles vivem suas experiências religiosas. Para eles, as igrejas representam redes de auto-ajuda, espaços de sociabilidade, reafirmação da identidade nacional, assim como uma expressão coletiva de fé. Porém, mesmo com o expressivo papel da participação eclesial, a experiência religiosa não pode ser reduzida a isso: ela também se apresenta na vida cotidiana, como uma “religião vivida”, condicionando maneiras concretas de expressar a fé; em casos extremos, isso pode chegar a uma total negação do compromisso institucional, embora a fé se mantenha através de outras formas.
Palavras-chave: Experiência religiosa; Migração; Brasileiros na Flórida; EUA
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