A pentecostalização de povos tradicionais na Amazônia: aspectos conceituais para uma antropologia de identidades religiosas.

This paper is a conceptual framework, which support ethnographic fieldwork that focus on the presence and the religious dynamics of Protestant Pentecostalism in the Amazon. The hypothesis that epistemologically sustains this work - and the anthropological research projects already in progress and future - formulates the idea that the "caboclo" ethnic-cultural aspect, an 'ideal type' (in the Weberian sense), is a crucial factor in the dynamics of the evangelical process in this region. This conceptual construction is present in theoreticians, such as Eduardo Galvão, Heraldo Maués, Angélica Mota Maués and João de Paes Loureiro - scholars of Amazonian culture. The objective is to study the historical dynamics and to record ethnographically the manifestations of missionary movements, of neo (Pentecostal) churches and also less institutionalized groups, materialized in the strong process of conversion and evangelization of traditional communities (indigenous, riverine, 'caboclos' and peri-urban people). The focus is to analyze the impact of these religious expressions on different types of Amazon socio-cultural groups and how these communities, new converted, re-signify, create and develop new expressions of the sacred, constituting what we are calling 'caboclo Pentecostalism'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]