O amor de Cristo nos uniu : construções identitárias e mudança social em narrativas de vida de gays cristãos do grupo Diversidade Católica

• Autor(a) principal: Araújo, Murilo Silva de
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: LOCUS Repositório Institucional da UFV
• Texto Completo: http://locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/4887
• topic: Análise do discurso; Catolicismo; Homossexualidade; Diversidade católica; Teoria Queer; Discourse analysis; Catholicism; Homosexuality; Catholic diversity; Queer theory; CNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LINGUISTICA::TEORIA E ANALISE LINGUISTICA

The relationship between Christian religions and the issue of non-heterosexual sexualities is usually taken as a historically troubled relationship, and this impression deepens when we observe, especially in the Brazilian political context, so many fundamentalist agents that advocate against the advancement of sexual and reproductive rights. In a scenario like this, in which Christians are routinely seen as the main enemies of LGBT people, it is remarkable that there are people and groups who claim to reconcile homosexualities with Christian religious experiences. It is the case of the Brazilian group Diversidade Católica [ Catholic Diversity ], which has existed since 2006 in the city of Rio de Janeiro. In order to provide deeper insights about the experiences of these people, this work discusses the processes of construction and affirmation of a gay Christian identity, by doing a critical discoursive analysis of life narratives from members of this group. We tried to identify, in their discourses, the ways of reconfiguration of the official doctrine of the Catholic Church, and the way they represent their religious collective experience in Diversidade Católica, in order to clarify issues touching the relations of control, power and hegemony in the relationship between Catholicism and sexualities. To meet these goals, we use the theoretical and methodological assumptions of Critical Discourse Analysis, based especially on the proposal of the British linguist Norman Fairclough (Fairclough, 2001 [1992], 2003; Chouliaraki & Fairclough, 1999). Furthermore, we also consider the reflections on control, discipline, power and sexuality developed by the philosopher Michel Foucault (1988 [1976], 2011 [1975], 2011 [1980]) and by theorists from the field of Queer Theory (Butler, 2003a [1990], 2003b; Louro, 2001, 2009; Miskolci, 2007, 2009, 2012; Salih, 2012). With the analysis, we were able to realize that narrators use many linguistic resources to represent both elements of their identity as characteristics that cannot be abandoned, changed or negotiated. At first, this non-negotiable duality is represented as a conflict; but then, this same duality is what causes a process of recontextualization of meanings about faith and religiousness meanings which become open to acceptance and appreciation of homosexuality.