Banca de DEFESA: EMANUELLE GONCALVES BRANDAO RODRIGUES

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STUDENT : EMANUELLE GONCALVES BRANDAO RODRIGUES
DATE: 05/01/2022
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: Videoconferência Via Google Meet (Pandemia Covid19)
TITLE:

Narratives of Progress and Sacrifice: Intersections between Christianity and neoliberalism in the communication of Brazilian religious leaders

KEY WORDS:

Dialectical Hermeneutics of Narratives; Neoliberalism; Christianity; Sacrifice; Progress.

PAGES: 238
BIG AREA: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
AREA: Comunicação
SUMMARY:

At the top of the lists of bestsellers for the 2010s, the trilogies of Bishop Edir Macedo, from Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, and Father Marcelo Rossi, from Catholic Charismatic Renovation, drew attention for surpassing books with large circulation and national consumption. A double problem emerged from the first immersion in the literary works: How could the narratives of Christian leaders, having the biblical referent as their horizon, be constituted as instruments for the propagation of a political rationality anchored in values supposedly opposed to Christian teachings? In this equation, how do two different currents of Christianity, one Catholic and the other Pentecostal, weave dialogues of meaning? Thus, Macedo and Rossi's narratives of oneself became the object of this research. Our main objective was to understand the meanings relations between the narratives of Christian leaders and the political rationality of our time, based on the pillars of neoliberalism. For this analysis, we developed a methodological approach based on the hermeneutic
perspective of Paul Ricoeur (2006, 2010a, 2010b, 2010c, 2012, 2013, 2014), which aligns philosophical, historiographical, literary and theological knowledge on narratives, with significant contributions from Walter Benjamin (1994, 2013) about history and narrative. So that we built a methodological framework named Dialectic Hermeneutics of Narratives. Among the main results found are the deep relationships that Christianity, through a particular grammar, has been establishing with neoliberal rationality, with some of its movements being important actors for the rooting of this form of contemporary life. With this study, it was possible to understand how Catholicism, especially the Catholic Charismatic Renovation, has a positive ethics in relation to the neoliberal world reason, especially through what we understand as charitable practices. We conclude that, despite their differences, Pentecostalism and Catholicism have historical affinities that have increasingly been consolidated in their narratives, contributing to a way of life based on the realization of the self as a cause in itself. 

BANKING MEMBERS:
Interna - 3227594 - CRISTINA TEIXEIRA VIEIRA DE MELO
Externa à Instituição - JACQUELINE MORAES TEIXEIRA - USP
Presidente - 1654570 - KARLA REGINA MACENA PEREIRA PATRIOTA
Externo à Instituição - LUIS MAURO SA MARTINO
Externo à Instituição - VANDER CASAQUI - UMSP