R.R. SOARES leu kenneth Hagin: elementos da identidade religiosa norte-americana na teologia da confissão positiva no Brasil (1980-2010)

Abstract

Around the 1960s and 1970s, one of the most widespread theologies in the world today emerged in the United States, the so-called theology of positive confession. As the American pastor Kenneth Hagin was its creator and one of its main promoters, this religious discourse reached all the United States and several parts of the world, also reaching Brazil. On Brazilian soil, the positive confession arrived in the 1980s, with pastor Romildo Ribeiro Soares (R.R. Soares) as its main representative, being widely accepted by a large number of evangelicals and non-evangelicals, at the same time that it was strongly criticized by traditional pastors and theologians. In this sense, this work has the general objective of understanding how the North American religious identity expressed in Kenneth Hagin's theological works, was appropriated and re-signified by pastor Romildo Ribeiro Soares in Brazil. As a documentary corpus for analysis, we used the works written by pastors Kenneth Hagin and R.R. Soares published in the country through Graça Editorial, with a time frame between the years 1980 and 2010. In addition, we carried out extensive bibliographic research on the subject in both American and Brazilian authors and used the reflections of sociologist Stuart Hall and the historian Roger Chartier on the “identity dynamics in the modern world” and the "history of reading".