Reconfiguração religiosa da Paraíba (1911-1950): a presença adventista

Abstract

Adventism arose from the studies of Guilherme Miller which was to be released in 1831 in the United States of America. He preached that Jesus' return would be sometime between 1843 and 1844. From 1845, the Millerite Movement began to divide into several groups and one of them became the Seventh-day Adventist Church. This group grew and the need arose to create a structure to keep pastors and missionaries. In this way, they organized themselves in the 1860s. In the following decade, they began sending missionaries to other countries overseas. Adventist beliefs arrived in Brazil through literature, immigrants, canvassers and, finally, pastors between the 1880s and 1890s. Missionary work developed as a bulletin in the south of the country because of immigrants and then expanded to the North . Only in 1911, Adventism arrived in Paraíba, but it was not until 1921 that it began to develop in the state. This paper analyzes the process of implementing Adventism in Paraíba and seeks to understand the religious field of the state during the period studied. Given the above, it can be seen that this work has academic property for research in the Graduate Program in History at UFPB, in the “History and Regionalities” research line, as it encompasses a problem concerned with understanding the different ways in which historical subjects established relationships with the past and expressed their views through religiosities, which were modified by regionality.