As artimanhas do sagrado: sujeitos religiosos e a construção de representações sociais importantes à formação identitária

• Autor(a) principal: Saquetto, Diemerson
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (riUfes)
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.ufes.br/handle/10/10876
• topic: Social representation; Stereotypes; Evangelicals; Catholics; African confessionals; Représentation sociale; Identité sociale; Stéréotypes; Évangéliques; Catholiques; Evangélicos; 159.9; Religion; Afroconfessionais; Psicologia; Estereótipo (Psicologia); Cristãos; Umbanda; Candomblé; Religião; Representações sociais; Identidade social; Católicos; 159.9

Religion is a relevant operator of social sense that, contrary to what alleged by sociological doctrines advocates the secularization, metamorphosed into the contemporary, allowing the identity management of the groups which are understood by the representational dynamic of their church membership. The present thesis aimed to understand the structuring processes that originate the social identity of three religious groups: evangelical, catholic and African confessional (Umbanda and Candomblé followers), through the articulation between the Social Representation and the Social Identity theories. The data were obtained through an instrument submitted to religious followers: evangelicals (n=104), Catholics (n=102), and African confessionals (n=35), comprising evocation questions in order to obtain the social representation of subjects considered relevant to the identity formation. With aid of the software Evoc-2003 the data were processed and categorized according to Content Analysis criteria. The results point at a strong group cohesion allowed by religion and an in-group protection system marked by a positive self-stereotyping process. The social imaginary and the ideological forces allied social categorization and social comparison in the identity management possible by cognitive, affective and evaluative justification based on religious doctrine. The out-groups are associated with negative representational images and, sometimes, demonized images. The defenses by negation were marked by history of objectivations of images shared in intergroup relationships. Catholics showed a identity tone characterized by their constitution as a dominant and hegemonic group and with social representations streamlined by cognitive polyphasia process. Evangelicals showed a social identity associated with need for social acknowledgment, coping postures and justifications belonging to the biblical imaginary. African confessionals in turn configured a social identity made out in their history of resistances, syncretism and miscegenation, combining religious identity with ethnic identity, elements that made possible the analysis of their group structured as an “active minority” and not passive in the game of social influences,