O pastor protestante brasileiro e a busca de legitimidade social

Abstract

The paper analyzes the sociological problem with the loss of social legitimacy of the Brazilian Protestant Minister (aqui também pode-se usar Pastor) and it will evaluate the ways that these social agents can use to fill this gap psychosocial. Working from the theory paradigm of role "symbolic interactionist", taking advantage the sociological methodology of the Jean-Paul Willaime and transplanting these resources to the sociological Brazilian Protestantism's reality, this study showed that during the historical course, since the insertion of Protestant mission in Brazil, even the most significant change in the Brazilian religious field with the emergence of neo-pentecostalism, Protestant Ministers connected to brazilian historical religious denominations suffered a gradual loss or restriction of their social importance. The study also found that this loss or restriction in their social locus generates a natural response in order to reconquer their condition of social plenitude. This natural response interposes as the vital sociological problem discussed in this research: what are the possible outputs for legitimating the Brazilian Protestant Minister.