出版社：Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul
摘要：The Catholic Charismatic Renewal: a church within the Church?
Theories about religious desregulation and desinstitucionalization in
contemporary society have underestimated the study of the religious
movements' organizations. Criticizing this tendency, the present article calls
attention to the importance of religious organization. It focus on how the broad
Catholic Church's organization has affected the Catholic Charismatic Renewal
(CCR) leading it to the adoption of an internationally integrated organization
that is relatively autonomous in relation to the local catholic community and
clergy. Adopting this format, the CCR flourished in faithful numbers, but it had
to redefine its original proposal. The Catholic Church possesses organizational
devices that allow the growth of movements and communities with such a
degree of autonomy that they constitute quasi-churches inside the Church.
These devices have helped the Church avoiding ruptures and defections. This
article also stresses that the CCR reproduces the same dynamics of the broader
Church to its interior. Within the CCR communities have developed with
relative autonomy regarding their life styles, behavior rules, and religious
discourses.
关键词：Organization; Roman Catholic Church; Catholic Charismatic
Renewal
