This work is the conclusion of the scientific initiation project started in 2021, which aims to
analyze the social markers of differences (ZAMBONI, 2014) in particular the category of
“Gender” that appears structured and organized in the discourses and practices of
neopentecostal religion. Having as a research problem, it is based on the idea that the
neo-Pentecostal religious structural configurations in most cases are established by the
relations of hierarchies, being sources of inequalities in the sectoral and discursive division,
based on the distinction of gender - female and male. The general objective of this research is:
to understand the gender category among neopentecostal religious women. The specific
objectives are: to trace the history of neopentecostalism in Brazil; to preliminarily identify the
reasons that lead adult women to enter a dogmatic religious structure; to identify how the
discourses of neo-Pentecostal representatives operate, the strategies and the means used to
attract the faithful; understand the discourses of religious leaders in the conceptions of roles
assigned to women. The problems that guided this research were the following: What are the
gender understandings that neo-Pentecostal religious women have? How does understanding
gender from a religious perspective interfere in their lives? Why do adult women enter and
follow a dogmatic religious system? For this, we adopted the combination of two
methodologies - bibliographic and qualitative - which allowed the writing of the text to be
created with consistent arguments based on bibliographic sources and the significant
responses of the participants of this work - to the interlocutors of the research carried out in
2019 with groups of eighteen religious women of neopentecostalism, for the most part. The
results demonstrate that the neo-Pentecostal religion in the lives of women interferes in their
social, political and individual daily life, in their attributions at home, at church, on the street.
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