The ritual of baptism and the possibilities of religious identity construction.

Abstract

This article aims to discuss or discuss the processes of construction of religious identities of members of the First Trinity Baptist Church. It is based on everything in the ethnography selected at the First Baptist Church of Trinity, located in the city of São Gonçalo, Rio de Janeiro's metropolitan region. Starting from the notion of baptism as a way of passage (VAN GENNEP [1909], 2011), and being a baptism of central rituals of Christianity, which can be an important access point for understanding the religious life forms articulated to Christianity, in general, and the Baptist Tradition in particular, since conceptions and rituals about baptisms are elements of divergence between the various Christian traditions. The focus of this study is to understand how new religious subjectivities are realized through the baptizer's participation in different pedagogical arenas and in daily life preceding and succeeding or on-screen rituals. Create a great importance, looking at studies of this portion of Brazilian society and understanding how individuals are built in this growing circle of society.