A ordenação das mulheres como pastoras na Assembleia de Deus do estado do Amapá: desafios e consequências (2003 a 2016)

Abstract

This research analyzes the relations of ecclesiastical power in the ordination of women in the Assembly of God of Amapá, belonging to the Fraternal Convention of the Assembly of God in Amapá (UFIADAP). From the historical process of women in their claims for the right to ministerial ordination, it is reflected on the process of inclusion of women in the hierarchy of the church and the conflicts generated in the power relations between pastors and pastors within the institution. The ordination of women creates challenges in the relation of the local convention with the national direction. In this way, the work starts from the theoretical framework based on the concepts of Feminist Theology and on the theory of gender. It gives a historical retrospective of the struggles of women in the conquest of their spaces in society. It then highlights the historical process of the maturing of the consciences of Pentecostal women and how they used their strategies to change the history of ecclesiastical power made for men to include women in power within the church. Finally, it analyzes historical interventions within the state conventions and the national convention and the impact on the minds of men who begin to divide power with women within conventions. The challenges and consequences of these decisions for the Pentecostal people are analyzed. It is a process of slow assimilation, but no return, since the statute of the new national and local convention already includes the inclusion of women as pastors and evangelists. After 100 years of the history of the Assembly of God in Brazil, the Pentecostal women in Amapá and in Brazil conquer their space of equal rights.