Cultura e consumo: programas telerreligiosos e a percepção de jovens católicos e assembleianos

Abstract

In this article are presented data from observation of consumption processes and audience of religious TV programs from Catholic Churches (IC) and one of the Evangelic Churches network from Brazil called Assemblies of God (AD) by young people living in Breves-Marajó, Pará. Based on an observation schedule, we identified and analyzed strategies of commercials in programs aired on open TV of Catholic Churches (TV Nazaré and Canção Nova) and the Assembly of God churches of Brás and Victory in Christ, from the perception of young catholics and assemblies. While the Catholic Church explores the usage of advertisements in a more cadenced way on their TV programming, AD shows this feature as their main strategy within religious TV programs. Finally, we observed that the consumption practices institutionalized by the church and the consumption processes can not be understood in an isolated perspective and without considering the mediations involved in the daily life of the investigated group.