Modalização e ideologia no discurso homofóbico pentecostal

Abstract

This paper addresses to discrimination against homosexuals inculcated in a religious preaching of Pentecostal denomination. It problematizes discursive instruments used by religious to purge people of dissident sexuality. This research had as main objective to demonstrate that the so called preaching carries mechanisms that generate beliefs and attitudes resulting from inconsistencies regarding the very origin of the Pentecostal religious aspect. Therefore, we sought to: unveil sacred foundations that, supposedly, give rise to the formation of discriminatory discourse; identify, in evangelizing speech, how modalization reveals discrimination; prospect harmful ideological effects of this social practice on the basic rights of homosexuals. This research was based on the studies of Fairclough (2016), Van Dijk (2008) and Thompson (1990), regarding the notions of discourse and modalization, power and ideology. The methodology comprised deductive reasoning, unfolded in an applied research, having as investigation techniques the collection and transcription of the corpus and the examination of the category modalization and its ideological effects in this text. This work is relevant for applying a theoretical discursive-critical framework to an unprecedented analysis material, religious preaching. Socially, it contributes to the awareness of asymmetric relationships, discursively established, in front of minority groups. As a result, an inconsistency in the interpretation of the biblical foundations regarding the origin of the Pentecostal doctrine was revealed: the preaching analyzed, contradictory to what the Christian doctrine defends, is more supported by Jewish orientations, contained in the first 5 books of the Old Testament, than those included in the New Testament, which records Jesus teachings, a Christian prophet, confirming the hypothesis defended here.