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IURD, enemy of Catholicism and earlier pentecostal waves ¹(66)

"pact between religion and money"² (66)

"It is an anti-intellectual, anti-Catholic and anti-theological movement. Poverty is seen as a creation of the devil and going to the temple means a financial obligation. There is an ethic of consumption" ³(66-67)

According to L Campos IURD: theatre, temple, market. THeatre: stress on the dramatic, anti-rationaL Temple: church environment. Market: financial streams of marketing, marketing.

"There is a combination of archaic magical elements with the urbanised world of globalisation and post-modernity with all its technical facilities." ⁴(67)

"Zygmunt Bauman repeatedly has warned in his analysis of the globalising and urban culture, that the Brazilian society can be seen as a prototype and an announcement of what may happen in the rest of the world, and of what is happening already in some other parts as welL"⁵ (71)

claims that in Neo-Pentecostal churches

"The body is healed in this world and at the same time manipulated to escape from this world. The religious good is promoted on the free market where capital is a guarantee for power, monopoly and further expansion."⁶ (72)

1 L Troch, 'Ecclesiogenesis: the Patchwork of New Religious Communities in Brazil' Exchange 33:1 (2004), 54–72, 66.

2 L Troch, 'Ecclesiogenesis: the Patchwork of New Religious Communities in Brazil' Exchange 33:1 (2004), 54–72, 66.

3 L Troch, 'Ecclesiogenesis: the Patchwork of New Religious Communities in Brazil' Exchange 33:1 (2004), 54–72, 66–67.

4 L Troch, 'Ecclesiogenesis: the Patchwork of New Religious Communities in Brazil' Exchange 33:1 (2004), 54–72, 67.

5 L Troch, 'Ecclesiogenesis: the Patchwork of New Religious Communities in Brazil' Exchange 33:1 (2004), 54–72, 71.

6 L Troch, 'Ecclesiogenesis: the Patchwork of New Religious Communities in Brazil' Exchange 33:1 (2004), 54–72, 72.