A Sedução divina no neopentecostalismo: um estudo psicanalítico.

The aim of the present paper is to offer a psychoanalytical point of view about the religious movement entitled neo-Pentecostal. Such movement has been initiated inside the Protestantism and proposes a wide range of theological innovations, such as the Prosperity Theology, the Dominion Theology and a wide flexibility in customs and habits. It also presents a new kind of relationship with the Sacred. A bibliographical research on the themes religion, psychoanalysis and neo-Pentecostalism was carried out in order to comprehend which messages are passed on between the couple believer-God within these Churches; which enigmas are offered to the believer and which comprehension can be achieved of the divine word. Based on the references found, we analyse Neo-Pentecostalism from a few main matters: its therapeutic function (cures, miracles, or the subject reestablishment from the difficulties of life); its group formation (the bonds between believers and with their religious leader); the role money plays inside these temples (as an intermediation between the believer and God) and the relationship between the believer , God and the Devil (especially when these relationships achieve their highest level: the religious ecstasy and the Devil possession). We conclude that the encounter with God, a reliving of the meeting between adult and child, brings the demand for the believers' passivity as a condition to receive God's love and protection, reinstituting the original femininity of the subject's history. The religious person, in his or her effort to comprehend this superior other's messages, finds a conclusion in the neo-Pentecostal discourse, making it possible to the believers to rewrite their own history and keep themselves safe from helplessness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]