As fronteiras mutantes do pecado: informalização erótico-religiosa, formação pastoral e o batismo de homossexuais na igreja Batista do Pinheiro

Abstract

In this dissertation, I intend to focus on the investigation of the process of erotic-religious informalization between men and women, expressed in the trajectories of pastoral formation and changes in the sense of gender belonging of members of the Baptist Church of Pinheiro, located in Maceió - Alagoas. I highlight the historical-social transformations in the offer of services and messages and thus problematize how these changes relate to competitive struggles in a market of beliefs in which the church is inserted, especially those related to the dynamics with other Baptist churches and institutions at the state and national levels. The aim is to understand the relationship between the emergence of new service and message offerings in the IBP from the 2000s, manifested in new pastoral and customer needs. The focus is on the emergence of these new needs, culminating in the Church's decision to accept homosexuals in their membership through baptism and the implications and consequences of that decision, particularly their expulsion from the Brazilian Baptist Convention in 2016.