Matrizes africanas e suas relações com as pequenas Igrejas Pentecostais

Abstract

This text presents as search object evangelic communities located in Carapicuiba, with the aim to find elements among them that represents, manifest or rebuild African native religion matrix religiosity. To achieve this goal observational and active engagement on meetings and interviews with two Christian religious leaders and Candomble obedentiary were performed. Historical and religious texts were also employed. In this research the African native religion matrix influence was confirmed, not only, as initially supposed by the Candomble touch points, but also with Afro-catholic traditions, as of mystical prayers like "benzimento" (blessing), and popular belives on "simpatias" (spells). Also noticed, the creation and development of these churches, teology and peculiar cosmovision from Reformed as from Pentecostals tends to answer africanbrazilian from diaspora religious yearnings, which re-create, in the middle of oppression, their ancestral culture. The presented text opens up a window to understand how afro-brazilian religiosity has been developing around the growing Christian traditions in Brazil; how the black people from diaspora search, in a certain way, to belong to the captive land, even after 130 years later from abolition. Keywords: Teology; Religiosity; Black people