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| Author(s): |
Alexandre Oviedo Gonçalves
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2015-01-23 |
| Examining board members: |
Paula Montero;
Ricardo Mariano;
Aramís Luis Silva
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| Advisor: | Paula Montero |
| Abstract | |
The objective of this research is to analyze, through the discursive practices of actors linked to a parachurch organization called Tribal Generation, positions of certain agents to justify themselves as legitimate Christians. Our question turns to the understanding of the conditions necessary for a church to exist and to legitimize as such. This question helps us to analyze the disputes over the classification of what would be the church, revealing the parameters of their discursive construction as a \'legitimate\' way emic term that reiterates what can be understood as a church and, consequently, as a religion. To understand these questions, we try to structure this thesis in two planes. The first plan was to map a network of actors, churches, ministries and missionary schools from the Tribal Generation, an organization that acts as a virtual platform that brings and as a proposal \"to encourage an inclusive model of churches with more flexible leadership facing the contemporary diversity\". Assume assumption that the doctrinal content remains \"conservative\" about the discursive use of texts that make up the bible. The second plan was about the mapping of a sub-network of actors, churches and missionary schools that focus on the \"evangelization and conversion\" of individuals who identify themselves as homosexual. This \"pastoral network of sexuality\" category we use to circumscribe the subnet, helped us understand how the discursive use of \"inclusion and diversity\" does not necessarily positive homosexuality as a legitimate sexual identity. These categories, along with proposals for new forms of ecclesiological and outreach activities, call into dispute the legitimacy of the actors. This dispute is undertaken in the field of sexuality, showing distinct discursive forms in interaction. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 12/18852-0 - The Emerging Church: youth, counterculture and post-modernity in religious discourse |
| Grantee: | Alexandre Oviedo Gonçalves |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |