[ONLINE] University of Aveiro, Portugal

October 21, 22 and 23 2020

Lutheranism Gaucho in Southern Brazil: an understanding of gender from the female ecclesiastical constitution

Joyce Aparecida Pires

This work will discuss the negotiations and assimilations that occur in the practices of women of the ecclesiastical hierarchy in the Evangelical Church of Lutheran Confession in Brazil and the contribution of the Traditionalist Gaucho Movement in the construction of the status and religious female identity in the south of Brazil.

Keywords: Protestantism; Gauchism; Ecclesiastical hierarchy; Gender justice.