História da religião: origem e precursores dos movimentos pentecostais através dos séculos e dos continentes

Abstract

This article deals with the historical context in which the process of implantation and expansion of the Pentecostal Movements, before and after the Protestant Reformation, took place. Thus, the main objective of this study was to understand how different religious segments dispersed across centuries and continents. For this, we focus a look at its theological bases and respective missionaries, in order to reconstruct a picture of its trajectory through the centuries and continents. Through a bibliographical review and historical documents, it was possible to understand not only the historical context, but also the ideological matrices, its strands and its main characters, represented in the figure of some of its disciples and followers. Furthermore, it was also possible to identify the dynamics of its transformations and its doctrinal principles, in their theological and ecclesiological perspectives. Thus, it can be concluded that the vitality of the dogmatic genitures of the Pentecostal segments were lodged in the structure of some social groups. These, welcomed them and gave it specific characteristics, over centuries and continents, and which still continues to attract millions of people in various parts of the world.