As células e os jovens: etnografia sobre o processo de evangelização em uma igreja pentecostal de Macapá

Abstract

This work was elaborated based on results of a year of field research between the time course of september 2018 to august 2019 about a model of apostolate and a religious sociability of youngs at one of the church's Assembleia de Deus - ADEA, which is located in the south zone of Macapá- AP. The church is driven by the evangelization system called Modelo de Discipulado Apostólico - MDA. This model consists in using células, discipulado individual and to keep their members around and to attract new membership, cults. Based on these information the research focus was to ethnographically analyze the evangelical ways of young people from the above referred church on a célula perspective, trying to understand their conversation process of enlargement and maintenance at this church. Therefore, I quested to understand the meaning of células on youngsters sociability which share this church at Macapá - AP. For this purpose, I accomplished field research, with meetings at the church's head office at Macapá - AP, gathering at recreation places and creating field's journal preparation on células, done from participant observation on these locals, which was a useful basis to anthropological analyzes which originated this work.