Abstract
This article discusses a research on the Catholic Charismatic Renewal (CCR) movement from a bibliographic review and a document analysis, developing an Institutional Analysis “on the paper”, having as a theoretical guide the works in Social Psychology about religious movements in the Catholic Church. The CCR is a religious movement born in the United States of America in 1967 that expanded largely, with a strong presence in Brazil. The main focus of this article was on the production of subjectivity mechanisms that are used by this movement: we considered their effects in terms of the knowledge/power they have on the life of their members and of the normalization pattern that is propagated by their official speech, widely broadcasted on television, internet, books and events involving lots of people, diffusing and creating a serialized subjectivity. Furthermore, we understand that their mechanisms of action are close to those of movements with totalitarian character.
Social Psychology; Institutional Analisys; Subjectivity; Singularity