Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this paper analyzes liturgical strategies that are held by the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG) in the cities of Rome, Madrid and Barcelona. The focus of the analysis lies on the ways how such institution, in their various activities (that are defined as "healing" and the promise to cure any kind of problem - social, physical or spiritual), enables the intelligibility of concepts and practices for believers that are constituted mostly by immigrants of various nationalities, and also by members of local societies. The ethnographic data suggest that the therapeutic senses and efficacy symbolic, usually assigned by these believers groups, are particularly due to the capability of the UCKG to dialogue with such heterogeneous public (in socio-cultural terms, and from national origins and previous religious experiences), but many cases presents important similarities: conceptions of the sacred that are linked with spiritual elements from beliefs and rites connected with esotericism, shamanism and "individual religious bricolages". The strategies analyzed evidence not only interculturality from a Brazilian neo-Pentecostal church active in Europe, but also some dynamics of the religious sphere in this continent, previously exporter of religious doctrines and institutions and now a fertile field for missionary work.
UCKG; Europe; liturgical strategies; missionary work
