Religião e homossexualidade: produção de sentidos em entrevistas com líderes religiosos evangélicos

Abstract

This end-of-course work highlights the meanings produced in evangelical Christian religious discourse about homosexuality and homosexuals. As an investigative method, this research is based on French Discourse Analysis, whose main thinkers are Michel Pêcheux in France and Eni Puccinelli Orlandi in Brazil. As for the theoretical basis of this work, studies and analyses conducted by the two researchers mentioned were used, as well as other renowned authors in the field in question, who are referenced throughout this text. In relation to the object of study, three evangelical Christian religious pronouncements were used, given in interviews available on the YouTube streaming platform, enunciated by Brazilian evangelical religious leaders, namely: Aline Barros, Bruna Karla and Silas Malafaia. One of the main aims of this research is to present the meanings produced in the specified discourse on homosexuality from a materialist Pecheutian perspective. Based on the analysis carried out, regularities were found in the three statements. By way of detail, these are: notions of sin that qualify deviant sexualities in the Christian imaginary, terms such as practice, choice and option that personify homosexuality, and finally, heteronormativity manifested by the traditional conception of family and correct sexuality according to evangelical religious discourse. This evidence made it possible to conclude that there is a common ideological functioning in the discourses observed, in which the position of the evangelical subject can be seen. In relation to this terminology, it can be seen that this subject manifests, through the Christian discursive formation to which he is inscribed, through his social place and discursive position, dogmas stemming from his religion. When analyzing the evangelical discourse, one can see that there is a discursive formation in the Christian milieu that governs the actions of the faithful, leading to positions against certain themes, such as homosexuality, adultery, abortion and prostitution, for example.