I am a Jungian clinical psychologist. Some time ago, I defended my Master dissertation at the Science of Religions Department of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (Brazil) and it received the maximum grade from the examination board, which suggested me to make my work known. Following its indication I have already presented the results of my research in the following events and scientific publications:

- SIMPÓSIO ANUAL DO CEHILA/1998 - Comissão de Estudos de História da Igreja na America Latina e Caribe (CEHILA ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM/1998 - Church History Studies Commission in Latin America and Caribs);
- III SEMANA DE PSICOLOGIA DO CES/1999 (3rd WEEK OF PSYCHOLOGY STUDIES OF CES - Higher Education Center - Juiz de Fora); - CONGRESSO DA SOTER/1999 (SOTER CONFERENCE - Theology and Science of Religions Society);
- RHEMA Philosophy and Theology Magazine, vol. 5, n. 19/1999 and
- II CONGRESSO LATINO AMERICANO DE PSICOLOGIA JUNGUIANA - junho/2000 (2nd LATIN AMERICAN CONFERENCE OF JUNGIAN PSYCHOLOGY - June/2000).

Furthermore, I was pleased to be invited by EDITORA PAULINAS (a publishing house) to have my work published and it is this book: A EXPRESSÃO POPULAR DO SAGRADO: UMA ANÁLISE PSICO-ANTROPOLÓGICA DA IGREJA UNIVERSAL DO REINO DE DEUS (The Popular Expression of the Sacred: A Psycho-Anthropological Analysis of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God) and myself that I want to introduce to you now. The information below can be found in the book's inside cover.

"Some researchers, in order to achieve a better understanding of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (IURD in Portuguese), have been studying this neopentecostal phenomenon that has no parallel in the history of ´Brazilian religious field`.

This book, which deals with IURD in a serious way and with no previous judgments, is of importance because of its interdisciplinary approach. It also proposes a dialogical and creative use of the Social Sciences tools, as well as elements of Carl Gustav Jung's Analytical Psychology.

The author, through a refined bibliographical research, articulated with field works, and always having as a major reference the internal vision of the church in question and its members, tries to understand the ´IURDian world` and its phenomena of ´conversions, exorcisms and cures`. Besides, he points out psychological aspects which contribute to a better understanding of the ´cures` and the new dimension of its members' life phenomena.

Undoubtedly, this is a work addressed not only to the researchers of the Anthropology and Psychology of Religion fields, but also to those who want a better understanding of the religious phenomenon called the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God."

"The author: Paulo Bonfatti was born in Juiz de Fora, a city of the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, where he still lives. He graduated in Psychology at Centro de Ensino Superior de Juiz de Fora (Higher Education Center of Juiz de Fora) in 1990. He has been working with children, teenagers and adults under Carl Gustav Jung's Psychology line since then. Always interested in the articulations between Psychology and the religious phenomenon, he took a specialization course in Science of Religion at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora in 1992. He concluded his Master course in the same subject and at the same institution in 1998. This book is the result of his Master dissertation. Nowadays, besides his work as a Clinical Psychologist, he acts in the School Psychology field, writes articles and teaches Psychology of Religion at Santo Antonio Theological Archdiocesan Institute in Juiz de Fora. "

Besides the information above, I would also like to present the areas of interest of the book and its index:

AREAS OF INTEREST:
- Brazilian religious field;
- Sciences of Religions;
- Social Sciences (Anthropology and Sociology of Religion);
- Brazilian Neopentecostalism;
- Pentecostalism;
- Psychology;
- Psychology of Religion;
- Jungian Psychology;
- Brazilian Religious Syncretism
- and Theology.

INDEX OF THE BOOK:

Presentation.

First part:
Chapter I: Not everything only ends in pizza...
Second part: Conversion, Exorcism and Cure in IURD: The Symbolical Unit of Experience:
Chapter II: Between the leader's intentionalities and the members' sense experiences;
Chapter III: Conversion, exorcism and cure as a triad;
Chapter IV: Triad and totality ;
Chapter V: Syncretism and Brazilian religious source: symbolic totalities of triadic religious experience in IURD.

Third part: The Universal Universe:
Chapter VI: The symbolism of money;
Chapter VII: The sacred war;
Chapter VIII: The reality of the evil;
Chapter IX: The divine diseases.

Fourth part: The Universal Therapeutics:
Chapter X: The listening and the non-judgement;
Chapter XI: "The devil did it, not me";
Chapter XII: The universal "temenos";
Chapter XIII: "The bottom of the well";
Chapter XIV: The enantiodromia movement;
Chapter XV: Jesus Christ as redemption;
Chapter XVI: The encounter with the shadow;
Chapter XVII: The familiar unconsciousness;
Chapter XIII: The workmen and the wounded pastors.

Fifth part: Conclusion

Bibliography

I think that the above mentioned information can give you an idea of what the book is about.
I would like to ask for your help in order to make this book known. I hope you can take my request into consideration not only because of its unprecedent approach, but also because of the difficulties we face in publishing academic works and doing scientific researches in Brazil.

Cordially,

Paulo Bonfatti