{"id":46542,"date":"2012-07-07T16:23:59","date_gmt":"2012-07-07T19:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=46542"},"modified":"2012-12-07T16:26:43","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T18:26:43","slug":"between-ethics-and-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/between-ethics-and-spirit\/","title":{"rendered":"Between ethics and spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"TUCA VIEIRA \/ FOLHAPRESS<\/span>

Pierucci, in 2004: analysis of the Pentecostal and Catholic movementsTUCA VIEIRA \/ FOLHAPRESS<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

Being one of his specialties, he understood Weber\u2019s \u201cdisenchantment of the world\u201d like few others. With his death on June 8, he enhanced this disenchantment at the age of 67. Sociologist Fl\u00e1vio Pierucci worked in the field of religious sociology using Max Weber as a reference. In recent times, he discussed the phenomenon of Brazilian religiousness based on data from various demographic censuses. He was especially interested in the growth of Pentecostalism and its various aspects, the predominance of the Catholic Church despite the falling rate of church members, and lamented the decline of the followers of African religions such as Umbanda and Candombl\u00e9 as a result of the neo-Pentecostal expansion.<\/p>\n

He specialized in theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University (1970), graduated in philosophy (1973), and obtained a Master\u2019s degrees in social sciences in 1977 with the thesis \u201cCatholic Church and Human Reproduction in Brazil,\u201d defended at the Pontifical Catholic University of S\u00e3o Paulo (PUC-SP). In 1985, he completed his PhD in sociology on \u201cDemocracy, the Church and the Vote: the Involvement of Catholic Clergy in the 1982 Elections;\u201d this was followed by his post-doctoral thesis in 2001, \u201cThe Disenchantment of the World: the Stages of Max Weber\u2019s Concept.\u201d The latter was presented at the University of S\u00e3o Paulo, where he became a senior professor and head of the sociology department until his death. Between 1971 and 1987, he was a researcher at the Brazilian Analysis and Planning Center (Cebrap).<\/p>\n

Between 1978 and 1985, he taught in the sociology department at PUC-SP. Later, between 1992 and 1996, he was the executive secretary of the National Association of Graduate Studies and Research in the Social Sciences (Anpocs). From 2001 to 2012, he was secretary-general of the Brazilian Society for the Advancement of Science (SBPC).<\/p>\n

Among his dozens of publications, the book A realidade social das religi\u00f5es no Brasil e a Igreja: contradi\u00e7\u00f5es e acomoda\u00e7\u00e3o <\/em>[The Social Reality of Religion and the Church in Brazil: the Contradictions and Accommodation] stands out. One of his works analyzes the relation between the growth of neo-Pentecostal churches and their involvement with politics. It was one of the pioneering studies on this topic.<\/p>\n

In Pierucci\u2019s view, Brazil is witnessing a surfeit of religions. As such, stating that religion today is a business would not be an error. Moreover, according to Pierucci, churches use marketing strategies just like companies to attract more followers, or customers. People no longer seek salvation after death; their desires are now instant. And this is what the new religions aim to offer. Those that do not provide this lose their customers.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople are looking for a new kind of religion, such as offered by the Pentecostal churches, which in fact do not require loyalty to your religious background, but rather a break from your religious past. It is a religion that works well with capitalist culture,\u201d he says. \u201cReligion does a lot of marketing for itself these days. It says: look, you need religion to be happy, to be mentally and physically healthy. Some need it and others do not. Some people live very well without religion,\u201d he used to warn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fl\u00e1vio Pierucci, interpreter of contemporary Brazilian religiousness","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[233,261],"coauthors":[93],"class_list":["post-46542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanities","tag-philosophy","tag-sociology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46542"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=46542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}