Abstract:
The object of this research is the ministry of women through a reading of gender based on power relations in Brazilian Pentecostalism. This reading is delimited from the understanding of women's ministry in the context of the Evangelical Assembly of God, since it is understood how the largest numerical representation of the Pentecostalism in Brazil, which the majority of its members are women. Thus, from a historical and sociological reinterpretation seeks to verify its endurance in relation to female ministry. The research presents its content in three chapters: the first chapter seeks to, through a historical review of women's participation in the exercise of gifts in the Pentecostal Movement in its beginning, oppose by critical way, the positioning about the female ministry before the historical wealth of the Pentecostal experience in Brazil and abroad; the second chapter seeks to examine how are established power relations in the internal structure of the Assemblies of God and the conception of the female ministry in the same, from the missionary work carried by Frida Vingren on Brazilian soil; in the third chapter it is proposed to build a dialogue with a view to overcoming the resistance of the Assemblies of God for ministry women, respecting the specificities of Brazilian Pentecostalism.
