VIOLÊNCIA DE GÊNERO E ÉTICA NEOPENTECOSTAL

Abstract

Gender violence permeates social classes, ethnicities and religions and its escalation is constant in Brazil. Given the above, we sought to reflect on how neo-Pentecostal churches position themselves in the face of domestic violence. However, Brazil created the Maria da Penha Law (Law No. 11.340/2006) which aims to combat domestic and family violence against women. Concomitantly, the growth of neo-Pentecostalism in the national territory was observed, a denomination that indoctrinates its faithful in patriarchal rigor. This tradition reaches the “new world”, and colonial Brazil will be catechetically influenced by the modes of patriarchal domination. Where women's roles remain in taking care of their home, children and husband. The man's role will be to provide for his home. The rhetoric of neo-Pentecostal leaders that, sometimes, their sermons lead their listeners to hierarchize the two sexes. Biblical references bearing an ancient Semitic look are used as metrics to be followed in contemporary times: “submit yourselves to your husbands”, “the husband is the head of the wife” and “the wife should revere her husband”, assumes a pedagogical connotation of subservience to the male gender. Nevertheless, the pastoral discourse favors the maintenance of the domain. In a way, it ends up contributing to the cultivation of different forms of violence. All this will promote the perpetuation of patriarchal practices within Brazilian social culture.