Entre o desejo e o desprendimento: a noção do dinheiro na Igreja Perfect Liberty do Brasil

Abstract

The Japanese society opening to the modern world has been considered one of the most important components in the flourishing of the new Japanese religious movements. These religious movements, called New Japanese Religions, were born with the purpose of answering the questions demanded by a changing society. The Church of Perfect Liberty is one of those who had reached a settled level of expansion in Japan as well in other parts of the world, including Brazil. In this paper, we are going to analyze the relationship between this church and the modern world, specifically in Brazil, focusing the financial aspect. We are going to analyze how money is seen, its meaning and how the church legitimate the offerings. With the analysis of the interviews herein we are going to observe how the members of this church deal with the doctrine, which is coloured with non-attachment, and the consumer oriented society they live in. At the end, we are going to conclude if the church has a therapeutic role in their members lives, offering them a model of life that emphasize the being mode as a guarantee protection against the voracious and greedy emulating system originated in a society which favours the having mode