Resumo:
This dissertation analyzes the emergence of the Igreja Cristã Contemporânea (ICC) in
Salvador, investigating how LGBTQIAPN+ subjects, historically marginalized by
traditional evangelical Christianity, appropriate Pentecostal religious grammar to
construct new forms of religious belonging. In a context where Pentecostalism is
frequently associated with conservative discourses and the exclusion of sexual and
gender dissidence, the ICC stands as a unique empirical case by articulating an
inclusive theology with a Pentecostal aesthetic, liturgy, and cosmology. This research
is based on ethnography, through participant observation and in-depth interviews
conducted from 2017 onwards, intensified with the institutional consolidation of the
church in Salvador in 2019. Organized into three chapters, the dissertation
reconstructs the historical trajectory of inclusive Christian churches and situates the
ICC within this movement, analyzes the Pentecostal ethos as a pedagogy of the body
and emotions, and examines, through biographical trajectories, the processes of
stigma management, institutional rupture, and reconstruction of the religious self. It
argues that the ICC operates not only as a refuge, but as a space of symbolic suture,
in which Christian faith and sexual dissidence can be articulated without exclusion,
highlighting the capacity of Pentecostalism to renegotiate its moral boundaries in
contemporary Brazil.
