Impacts of globalization and modernity reflective on the brazilian society contemporary: the case of Universal Church

Abstract

Guided by the analysis and interpretation method of the sociology of Karl Mannheim's knowledge, this article aims to demonstrate that through the advancement of modernization in Brazilian society, from the beginning of the century, in addition to the radicalization of the social pathologies of modernity itself, it found the accentuation of reframing processes lifestyles, behaviors and social behaviors. And therefore, the religiosity of style and a new type of individual faithful in gestation; increasingly unpredictable. Leading therefore to the reconfiguration of the brazilian religious scenario.