Silva Sagracao

Neo-Pentecostal churches seen to challenge followers to engage in war against misfortune, and poverty.1 (15)
emphasis on the fact that from the perspective of the believer, the desire is to give money, not to buy something. Hence suggests money as a means of establishing a bond to establish relationships.2(17) However, giving tied primarily to money.3 (109)
IIGD: presents money as a means whereby one can unblock what is obstructing God's blessing.4 (25)
offering cannot be given in any manner, as a means of establishing a relationship it is important that sacrifice and recognition play their role.5 (27)
Points that in neo-Pentecostal services, money is seen as a tool that God can use, and to give is a sacrifice. Claims that it is contradictory to regard NEP as a market religion.6 (73)
Money offered seen to have two roles 1) help God's work to progress 2) as a sacrifice go to God's thrown and untie the financial life of the giver.7 (75)
tithe seen as an expression of the confidence of the believer in the church and in God.8 (103)
Emphasises the social nature of money in NEP churches. Collective nature of participating in a commonly accepted symbol.9 (104) Social recognition that comes from the act of giving.10 (107)
Sees prosperity theology as the basis for the ideology and the creativity of NEP churches.11 (132)
Life in the church as an agreement with God; in which God promises prosperity; tithe the first condition to be maintained.12 (133)
points to the wide open spaces o f a IIGD church which is continuously open.13 (139)
note reference to Malachi passage re: tithe, but does not recognise that it's use goes beyond NEP churches.14 (143)
points to the use of paid religious healing services in popular Catholicism.15 (146 note 88)
points to the way that in the IIGD teaching is that the quality of the offering is not always related to the quantity.16 (147-148) Condemnation of the “toma la, da ca,” mentality (but Silva does not suggest this as an anti-IURD polemic) denial of any form of bargaining.17 (150)
free hermeneutic preferred to rational/systematic theology18 (159)
IIGD, many had left IURD due to the way pastors in the latter ask for money.19 (174 note 106)
DE da Silva, A Sagração do Dinheiro no NeoPentecostalismo: Religião e Interesse à Luz do Sistema da Dádiva, Doctoral Dissertation, (Recife: Universidade Federal do Pernambuco, 2006)