Frida Vingren: o feminino na difusão do Protestantismo Pentecostal em Belém do Pará e Rio de Janeiro, 1917 a 1932

Abstract

This article presents an analysis of the role of women in the spread of Pentecostal Protestantism in Brazil, with reference to the Swedish missionary Frida Vingren. At the same time that it presents the historical contexts of Pentecostalism in the USA/Brazil, as well as the two first Pentecostal denominations in Brazil; reports the life trajectory of the Swedish missionary Frida Vingren in Brazil; and reaffirms the importance of female participation in the spread of Pentecostal Protestantism in Brazil, bringing up examples of women who stood out, women who, like her, acted in the propagation of the Pentecostal gospel in the 20th century, and finally brings an explanation about the feminine in the middle. Assembly Pentecostal. To develop this work, we carried out bibliographic research in secondary sources such as academic works, articles, books and the like, as well as, in primary sources, the newspapers of the time. This work has the role of reaffirmation, because the one that had its history silenced, for many years in the official history of the ADs, today has its history told and researched, by sociologists, historians and theologians.