The Renascer em Cristo Church and the consolidation of the gospel music market in Brazil: an analysis of marketing strategies

Abstract

From the 70s and 80s on, the protestant religious field in Brazil wasoverflowed by new forms of religiosity. Among them the neopentecostalchurches that had a huge increase in these decades. In a pluralist and competitivescenery, the Renascer em Cristo Apostolic Church (RCC), founded in 1986,centered in merchandizing actions, casts on religious market its main product: itsgospel music. The success of such product applies, partly, to the marketprinciples used by RCC, and also to the existence of a religious dissatisfaction inthe protestant means, principally related to the ritual and to the music. In thisway, this Church casts in the religious market a symbolic product in order tosatisfy a repressed religious demand, contributing, directly, to the consolidationof gospel music market in Brazil.