Damascena

"As Corten affirms, Pentecostalism is a religion for the poor that works primarily on the emotions which are seen as the construction of the divine experience of contact with God. In this sense, it is a religion of emotion, of rebellious and exuberant devotion."¹ (152)

link to daily needs and questions² (152)

"The situation of poverty and the abandonment of the poor go together with the success of Pentecostalism, but the strategies to confront poverty and the religious world-view construed by them demonstrate that other factors as well are important in the analysis of its propagation." ³

1AD Martins & LP de Pádua, 'The Option for the Poor and Pentecostalism in Brazil', Exchange 31:2(2002), 136–156, 152.

2AD Martins & LP de Pádua, 'The Option for the Poor and Pentecostalism in Brazil', Exchange 31:2(2002), 136–156, 152.

3AD Martins & LP de Pádua, 'The Option for the Poor and Pentecostalism in Brazil', Exchange 31:2(2002), 136–156, 153.