Identity Recompositions in the Religious and Cultural Integration of Sekai Kyusei Kyo in Brazil / RECOMPOSIÇÕES IDENTITÁRIAS NA INTEGRAÇÃO RELIGIOSA E CULTURAL DA IGREJA MESSIÂNICA NO BRASIL

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2009

RESUMO

The present study is based on the analysis of the religious and cultural integration of the Sekai Kyusei Kyo in Brazil (called Igreja Messiânica Mundial do Brasil in Portuguese) and its identity recomposition. The exploration of its symbolic world is considered as one of the key to understand messianity identity. The emblem of Sekai Kyusei Kyo (SKK) is the symbol of cross culture and harmony among different people. In Brazil, especially the Guarapiranga Sacred Ground is the expression of Paradise on Earth, the major goal of the messianity message from the SKK. Due to its distinctive nature as a religion of Japanese background, little familiar to Brazilians, some constituent trends (native, shamanic, peoples beliefs, Shinto, Confucian and Hindu-Buddhist ones) as well as messianic concepts considering their relevance in the process of constructing the Brazilian messianity identity were presented. According to the nature of concepts, a comparative view on the SKK and other new japanese religions (NJR) such as Mahikari, Perfect Liberty, Seicho-no-Ie and Tenri-kyo had been selected. Regarding reincarnation, a compared view with Spiritism made possible some proximity with Brazilian religiosity. From historical contextualization and the use of the messianic nomenclature, the ideas of kotodama or spirit of the word, ultra-r eligion, purification and disease, material benefits, self-cultivation as well as several dimensions of the Brazilian religious experience, such as ecological, inter-religious, artistic and messianity in the words strict meaning, were worked on. The idea of an ultra-religion by Meishu-Sama (religious name of Mokichi Okada, 1882-1955) must be understood under the viewpoint of the path of the consolidation of a religion in a special context of Japan in the beginning of the 20th century. Before establishing the messianic religion, Okada passed through art, business, publishing, and finally ideological and religious when he contacted the Omoto religion and other religious expressions, which multiplied fast and in great amount in Japan between the two world wars. The dynamic process of the interaction of different trends, which is a characteristic of the NJR, in contact with Brazilian religiosity gives impulse to a series of Japanese-Brazilian syncretic ressignification, marked by unique creative processes. The stress on the Messiah Meishu-Sama, the Practice of Sonen and the establishment of a messianic theology are some of the fundamental elements of the most recent identity recomposition of the religion in Brazil. Due to the successive changes of the institutional approaches as well as to the multiple dimensions of messianic experience, the identity construction of the SKK, which comprises religious and ultra-religious aspects, becomes more and more complex and multifaced.(AU)

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símbolo ultra-religião sekai kyusei kyo identidade igreja messiânica syncretic ressignification symbol identity integration ciencias humanas ressignificação sincrética ultra-religion integração

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