A renovação conservadora do catolicismo brasileiro e a homossexualidade – 1990/2010

Abstract

This thesis aims to analyze how the Catholic Charismatic Renewal has put homosexuality in a speech from 1990 to 2010. The documentary corpus used to develop the research consists of printed sources and texts posted on sites charismatic. The printed sources are made up of books published by members of the Renewal whose content deals with sexuality in a broad and discursive surfaces which were cut about homosexuality. The sources from the internet are made up of texts published by the leaders of the movement in response to debates about the expansion of rights for homosexuals and they were intensely disseminated through the media. Analysis of the sources was performed by analyzing the speech. This analysis revealed that the Charismatic Renewal reaffirms sexual morality historically defended by the Catholic Church, but to engage with debates in society end up using the same conflicts of society as raw material for their products that will be offered later in book form similar to the formats defined as self-help. The analysis of the sources also indicated the existence of an attempt to build a bridge between religion and cognitive science to resume early depictions of homosexuality as a disease that can be cured from a spiritual and psychological