Abstract:The migration of people between denominations of the same religion and the emergence of several new aspects calls a lot of attention in the religious field in contemporary Brazil, and we can wonder if this fragmentation or institutional atomization by denominations is due to dissent, ruptures, flexibility of the original beliefs, simultaneous accession to various beliefs or other reasons. Therefore, the focus of this study is to investigate and analyze if the atomization of the denominations correspond to sign… Show more
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