Memória se faz na História: Um Estudo da Identidade de Metodistas Militantes Sociais Orientados pela Teologia da Libertação / Memory is made upon History: a Case of Identity of Socially Militant Methodists Oriented by Liberation Theology

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2006

RESUMO

This research had as its main focus the religious experience of activists who define themselves as Methodist protestants and that became involved in social movements oriented by Liberation Theology, with the objective of understanding the formation and transformation process of human identity as a metamorphosis that searches for emancipation. In the analysis of these formative processes there was also the concern to understand the integration processes of these activists in society, being identified as incarnated personages as possible idiosyncratic forms of assumed roles in social groups, movements and/or organizations. In the measure that such roles are affected by identity policies that define role expectations, the struggle for emancipation was not done without the necessity of articulating overcoming possibilities with mechanisms of the change of presuppositions that search to establish the reproduction of conventional collective identities. With this, the pretension was to contribute with subsidies that permit the elaboration of a scientific-psychological basis for the práxis of the social psychologist, aiming at overcoming preconceptions and reductionist approaches of the religious experience, and verify if and how it can have an emancipation sense in the story of the activists. In a qualitative approach we study the narratives of the life stories of four activists, as potential expressions of the construction of new sense of life that transforms their identities in a movement that involves the overcoming of contradictions by the replacement of conventional presuppositions, in the quest of emancipation - according to understanding of identity as the metamorphosis of Ciampa (1987/2005) and the post-Metaphysical thought of Habermas (1988/2002). We conclude that in the process of militancy and in the change of identity, as metamorphosis in search of emancipation, the activists individualize in their attempt to establish their political identities with autonomy as they confront the bureaucratic power of the religious organization. In the effort to appropriate and, at the same time, to surpass the identity policy, to which they had been exposed the socialization process, we saw that in the process of individualization that the activists had developed their political identities and had become more fully political activists

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metodistas -- identidade experiencia (religiao) liberation theology psicologia social teologia da libertação methodist protestants teologia da libertacao -- aspectos psicologicos protestantes metodistas

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