FORMS OF DESIGNING "COMMUNITY" AND "DONS" THREE SHEDS CHRISTIAN: ANALYZING BREAKS AND CONTINUITIES

Abstract

From the proposal of an "anthropology of Christianity" which highlights the importance of researching breaks and cultural innovations promoted by Christian groups, this text compares as Pentecostal, Catholic Charismatic Renewal and "Catholic liberation" express to refer to their communities , gifts and receiving gifts and offerings they do. While religious practices that emphasize the supernatural and submission to God, these Christians speeches apparently would not have to innovate in the Brazilian context of most Christianised for centuries. However, based on research conducted at different times of the three types of Christianity, and a review of the literature, it is argued that, in different ways, the three proposed new ways of conceiving the relationship with the community and with the gift that would result in principle, greater individual autonomy and, consequently, in different experiences that break with those experienced in religiousness (whether these strands Catholic or other) who value obedience and submission to religious authority.