“Ladeira Acima”: discussões sócio-­antropológicas a respeito do movimento de subida ao Monte da Luz em Itapecerica da Serra

Abstract

The present work seeks an understanding of the recent popular movement of ascent to the prayer mountains from a social and anthropological analysis of the rituals performed at Monte da Luz in Itapecerica da Serra. The research aims at Monte da Luz, those who attend it and, after a historical perspective of its founder, makes an extensive description of the place, its agents and rituals. The work seeks to present which elements can be extracted for the best understanding of the Modern Pentecostal movement in a broader way and what is the possible unfolding of the movement from this individualized way of experiencing religion as it happens in the prayer mountains. Under the sociological theoretical bulge of Danielle Hervieu-­Legér in "The Pilgrim and the Converted," and anthropological in Mircea Eliade, Victor Turner and Leonildo Campos on his analysis of the engraving "the two paths", it is possible to draw a possible theoretical approach to analysis of how the modern Pentecostal believer is configured. As it is from a new symbolic constructions and less and less institutionalized, which leads to a free and unassisted ritual from the church in Monte da Luz. Although there was no direct conflict between the faithful and the institution, the research revealed that more and more Pentecostal believers have joined a bricolage of different religious concepts to exercise their faith in a personal and free from any dogmatic and ecclesiastical structure