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O Papel das Imigrações no Crescimento da Igreja Adventista do Sétimo Dia

2009; UNIVERSIDADE METODISTA DE SÃO PAULO; Volume: 23; Issue: 37 Linguagem: Inglês

10.15603/2176-1078/er.v23n37p146-170

2176-1078

H.E.S. Schünemann,

Religion and Society in Latin America

Human migrations had been sufficiently intense in the last 150 years. During this period the Seventh Day Adventist Church (SDAC) had its origin in the United States and became enlarged in the whole world, being the church protestant present in the biggest number of countries. The analysis of this growth demonstrates the contribution of the migratory processes for the fast expansion of the SDAC in the world. The first stage occurred enters 1870-1914 when European immigration in direction to the American continent facilitated that the European immigrants if convert the SDAC into the United States and came back to its countries to spread out the adventism, as well as the expansion in the south cone. The second stage more intensely after occurred World War II even for 1980 when the processes of agricultural-urban migration in the Latin America and some parts of Asia had contributed for the SDAC had a great growth in the urban areas, to a large extent had the conversion of these migrantes. The third stage occurs from 1980 when to an intensification of populations of some regions of the Third World for the Europe and the United States. The SDAC in these countries central offices has its growth supported from these immigrants, of which a good part already was adventist in its native countries. In short, we can perceive that the migratory population flows become related with the diffusion of churches, as the SDAC, for also facilitating the information flow and for offering to a structure of shelter and sociability to the immigrants.