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The purpose of this article is to understand characteristics of the political discourse of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG) regarding the left-wing aired on the Univervideo streaming platform, focusing its investigations on one of its talk shows, entitled Entre Linhas, opened in 2020. It presents how ideological aspects of these discourses are articulated and their possible connections with theological elements that would influence the narratives of the UCKG. The analysis is intended to contribute to the understanding of the UCKG's behavior in the political choices it makes on the national scene, and the time frame extends from the 2020 municipal elections to the 2022 presidential elections. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The controversial establishment of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in Portugal was the subject of many news reports during the 1990s, in which accusations of serious crimes -- from charlatanism to connections to drug trafficking and child abduction -- filled the pages of newspapers (G. M. Dias, 2006; R. A. S. Dias, 2016; Farias, 1999; Farias & Santos, 1999; Júnior, 2013; Machado, 2003). Many of these news reports linked the Church with stereotypes about Brazil and Brazilians and referenced Brazilian soap operas, which were quite popular in the country at the time. To observe whether these characteristics have been maintained over the years, the author analysed reports published by the influential newspapers Público and Expresso from the early 21st century (2001 and 2002), in 2010 and 2017, respectively. Inspired by critical discourse analysis and framing analysis, and with the theoretical support of the theory of social representations, such analyses allowed the author to conclude that the characteristics identified in the 1990s remained, although the Church's media presence has since reduced. In turn, the reference to soap operas manifests in the fabric of journalistic discourse, with a hybridisation formed between the melodramatic and informational genres. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to analyze the discourse of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG) in Portugal regarding the Portuguese economic and financial crisis (2010-2014) and the implementation of the austerity program, bearing in mind the association between neopentecostalism and neoliberalism. The study is anchored on a qualitative methodology based on a documentary analysis of the official newspaper of the UCKG, Folha de Portugal. Editions between 2010 and 2012 are analyzed, a period corresponding to the main reforms introduced by the austerity policy. This theoretical-methodological option appears to be an essential instrument for understanding the relationship between neoliberal policies and the narratives of prosperity theology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Resumo O Diabo tem sido uma figura significativamente ascendente em grande quantidade de pessoas e igrejas. No Brasil, o segmento neopentecostal cresceu em boa medida combatendo as entidades do panteão afro-brasileiro. Em denominações dessa vertente é comum atribuir-se ao Diabo a influência negativa sobre pessoas, sendo também responsável pelo não pagamento de dízimos, o que evidencia o fato de tal figura exercer papel importante. Algumas igrejas costumam ainda demonizar organizações e indivíduos tipificados por elas como adversários nos campos: religioso, econômico, midiático e político, sendo que quando alguns de seus representantes parlamentares são fortemente acusados de corrupção, estes acabam também por sofrer diabolização seguida de descarte institucional. O caso mais eloquente e enfocado neste artigo é o da Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus (Iurd). Decorrente de sistemática pesquisa bibliográfica sobre o tema, o texto aborda sucintamente as diferentes fases históricas e faces do Diabo, no Ocidente e no Brasil em particular, enfocando o modo como ele é visto e representado contemporaneamente pelas denominações neopentecostais brasileiras, sobremaneira a Iurd, algo com implicações econômicas e políticas.

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In this article - in dialogue with the text by Christina Vital da Cunha - I reflect upon the relationship between participatory and representative democracy and how the insertion in political parties involves important elements that contribute to the discussion on identity and their contributions to think about formal politics. I emphasize that considering the presence of evangelicals in party life, together with the existing party-political strategies and guidelines, as well as the electoral funding processes and the structuring of campaigns are important aspects for the proposed analysis. As a conclusion I indicate that it seems to me that the differences identified are not only generational, but there are also class components and issues related to insertion in the territory, involvements with various movements, militancy, and the different types of insertion in party structures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article addresses the latest incidents involving the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (hereinafter IURD or simply Universal Church) in Angola. More specifically, it analyzes the arrival of the aforementioned religious association in Angola, its growth, the outbreak of the crisis, the reasons evoked by dissident pastors and bishops, namely, the subordination of Angolan pastors to the detriment of Brazilian pastors, involuntary vasectomy, washing money, currency evasion, etc., and their legal and social implications for the IURD in Angola. To this end, we use approaches already made about the IURD, revisiting academic articles, books, newspapers and material broadcast in an investigative TV program, leading us to conclude that if the crimes imputed to the IURD are proven, it will have its license revoked by the Government of the Republic of Angola. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In Brazil, in less than three decades, the Pentecostals have become one of the main actors of national politics. Like in several other countries of Latin America, this has largely contributed to the reorganization of the religious field which was done in favor of Pentecostals. How is it possible to explain the increasing number of their congregants ? The reasons for their electoral triumphs ? Could they become a threat for democracy, as it has been often mentionned ? So many questions that this paper will try to answer.

The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God was established in Angola since 1992, but its presence in the country has become uncertain from an unusual episode: in December 2012, in a vigil to the end of the year, 6 people were killed and 120 were injured. This scenario triggered a set of facts and political speeches regarding this religious institution, which questioned the influence of the UCKG in that country. This communication proposal takes this historical fact as an analytical motto to understand the performance of the Brazilian Pentecostal churches in Africa, in particular the Universal Kingdom of God Church in Angola. We aim to question whether that presence should be understood an an instrument that promotes Brazilian imperialism in that country, interfering with the traditional habits of the Angolan culture or, whether, from another perspective, this religious presence should be seen as an agent of integration between Brazil and Angola. In order to conduct the analysis, we start from the reports about the episode in question and go forward with the theoretical and methodological aid of sociology, anthropology and international relations.

This paper is an original exercise of exploring some of the social actions of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG) in Namibia, South Africa, Angola, Mozambique and Portugal. Taking into consideration the contingences of each region, the UCKG tries to make and link new faithful through the social action organized mainly by organizations such as Sisterhood and Woman in Action, and by the Associação Beneficente Cristã, which has been already closed in Brazil. On the one hand, the church establishes partnerships with governmental institutions in order to promote itself as a social welfare organization. On the other hand, the sisterhoods offer promises of emotional success and social reconstruction. These programs encourage women to be committed to the church routine and to discipline themselves. The resulting achievement is a vehicle of empowerment and transformation. The ethnographic material is composed of articles and stories collected from newspapers, journals, magazines, websites and blogs created by the church and that register social actions of the UCKG during 2009 and 2010.

This study is an ethnographic and conceptual analysis of religious objects, their uses, and mediation of authority within the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (Universal Church) in Brazil. Drawing on scholarship within media studies, religion and media, and material religion, I distinguish between artifacts used to cement implicit contracts between Universal Church followers and their church community, which I call contractual media, or swag, and those that followers bring to meetings to be blessed and then take home to mediate both good and evil forces in family, work, and social life—these I call portable media. While portable object media are seen by their owners as powerful tools, contractual media, on the other hand, create implicit power relations that keep followers tied to the institutional church in a reciprocal exchange predicated upon expected prosperity as evidence of faithful attendance, fidelity, and personal sacrifice. The physical exchange of material goods in religious spaces constitutes a perpetuation rather than a disruption of institutional religious authority. As infrastructure, contractual object media establish and maintain conditions for otherwise mundane materials to mediate power on a daily basis. Through attention toward portable and contract object media, as part of what I am calling material microstructure, we can further complicate religious authority as it is mediated through objects, not just in one-way flows but as dynamic exchanges and trade-offs between personal empowerment and institutional control. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The present work focuses on the processes of production and the displacement of meaning of faith in the discourse of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God. To that end, we are anchored in the Discourse Analysis of the French line, more specifically that affiliated with the theoretical domains inaugurated by Michel Pêcheux (2014 [1969]; 1995 [1975]) in France and developed by him and other researchers also in Brazil. From the notion of imaginary formations (PÊCHEUX, 2014 [1969]), we investigate how the notion of intelligent faith, coined by the authorities of the aforementioned church, is inserted discursively in the religious semantic field. From the notation of the workings of ideology (PÊCHEUX, 1995 [1975]) we return to religious discourse as defined and redefined by Orlandi (1987, 2007) to perceive, in the game of images produced as an effect of meaning, some particularities discursive in the Universal Church. As a result of this research, we perceive the functioning of binary counterpositions by which faith is semanticized and which, in turn, have implications for the production of specific meanings that distinguish the faith practiced by the IURD from faith practiced in other religious domains. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article proposes a discussion at the intersection of the areas of Anthropology of Religion and Secularism, choosing as object the cycle of productions related to the Old Testament initiated in 2010 and transmitted by Rede Record de Televisão, property of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God. These are products of the cultural industry that have been imbued from the outset with tensions and discussions about the logic behind the demarcation of boundaries between the domain of religion and entertainment (Meyer and Moors, 2006). In this convergence identified between the biblical narratives and their current consumption and mediated by the production of the cultural industry, the scopes of circulation and the production of these messages are highlighted. I also emphasize the specificity of this production of Old Testament themes in comparison with earlier placements of what I identify as the "first cycle of religious dramatization," which came out in the late 1990s. The research highlights the movement that some agents identify as a "Judaicizing Turn" by the Universal Church in convergence with the production of miniseries and novels anchored in the text of the Old Testament. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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A partir do livro Os mistérios da fé, de autoria da principal liderança da Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus, Edir Macedo, procuro refletir sobre a noção de fé e sobre as características do discurso do autor. Considero que, a partir do texto de Macedo, é possível falar sobre estratégias discursivas reproduzidas no interior da denominação, assim como caracterizar as investidas proselististas que se realizam a partir delas. Ao examinar a tradução que Macedo faz sobre a noção de fé nessa publicação, destaco o emprego das idéias de "fé natural" e "fé sobrenatural", sublinhando continuidades e descontinuidades entre mundo secularizado e universo religioso dentro da proposta do autor.Based on the book "The mysteries of the faith", written by the main leader of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, Edir Macedo, I reflect about the notion of faith and about the characteristics of the author's discourse. I consider that, by focusing Macedo's text, it's possible to talk about discursive strategies reproduced in the denomination routine and also characterize the proselytists activities that take place from them. By analyzing Macedo's translation of the notion of faith in this publication, I point out the use of the ideas of "natural faith" and "supernatural faith", reinforcing the continuities and discontinuities between secularized world and religious universe in the author's propose.

This paper analyzes the protagonism by the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in the sense of producing reconfigurations in the current Brazilian religious public space. This occurs in different dimensions but this text is atem especially in iurdiana production monumentalization the religious, through the building of so-called cathedrals of faith, deployed in strategic places of the cities. In doing so the Universal defies Catholic hegemony to establish itself as legitimate religion in the public sphere, while their mega constructions tend to provoke a mimetic effect on other religious backgrounds who compete with her in public space. As a result, we have the diversification and expansion of religion in public space, which is a perspective for understanding the Brazilian secularization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aims to contribute to a better understanding of the participation of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG) in the media in Portugal and how this Brazilian denomination is related to Portuguese society and religious specificities. For the analysis, five editions of Sixth Sense (TV UCKG in Portugal) were selected, in which there are references to Friday the 13th, a date full of mysticism in popular Catholicism. Based on the narrative theory of Paul Ricoeur, a content analysis of the programs in which it uncovered the cosmology of the Neo-Pentecostal church: a "world" where opposing forces, representing good and evil, fighting between yes to master / save people; magic and spiritualist religions are evil ruler agents, while the UCKG is the agent of good, salvation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article focuses on the Neo-Pentecostal Movement, particularly in Brazil but also in other Global South contexts, which is a principal advocate the prosperity theology message. However, this same movement, as explained herein, actually promotes and sustains other characteristics in addition to the prosperity message, which pose significant challenges to evangelical missions. Include two aspects: an unredeemed, animistic worldview and an inadequate evangelical soteriology. Gaining the understanding of such complexities will hopefully lead to a more compassionate posture and better evangelistic strategies to serve Neo- Pentecostal adherents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study was intended to analyse the characteristic syncretism of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God by addressing their specificities and some consequences to the Brazilian religious filed. This work emphasizes the relationship of this denomination syncretism with religions of African origin. The main hypothesis is that the Neo- Pentecostalism of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, due to its syncretic profile, presents itself as an attractive option between the classical Protestantism and Afro-Brazilian services and the popular Brazilian religiosity. This work is based other researchers' work on the topic, literature produced by some leaders of this movement and videographic material available on internet containing Neo-Pentecostal speeches and practices relevant to this study. From this effort, it was considered that this kind of Neo- Pentecostalism is at a middle way between the Protestant tradition and the African and popular Brazilian religiosity, with notable ruptures in relation to its origin as well as many continuities; which makes this movement the expression of Protestantism that most suited the Brazilian reality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article seeks to analyze the reactions and responses of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG) in Berlin to the global COVID-19 crisis. Although the UCKG has been the subject of multiple international types of research regarding the spread of the COVID-19 virus, this article shows that the UCKG's global network of local churches must be differentiated in their responses and reactions to the global pandemic. This article traces and analyzes how the local UCKG in Berlin responded to the pandemic in its respective conditions and differed from the global network in the emergence of a pandemic in its rhetoric and discourse, using the concept of the Third Space . For this purpose, the services and sermons of local pastors were recorded to analyze how the discourse toward the COVID-19 crisis changed during the period of occurrence and awareness of a global pandemic. The results show how the church has adapted to the local restriction and regulations and reflect the international literature on how the UCKG's mother church in Brazil acted in comparison. The church and its pastors in Germany responded to the global pandemic in three primary ways: they assigned to authorities' guidelines, provided sermons with undertones of spiritual warfare, and rejected the interpretation of interdependencies between demons and health issues., (© The Author(s) 2022.)