O DISCURSO RELIGIOSO DO CÍRIO DE NAZARÉ: UMA DÍVIDA COM O SAGRADO

Abstract

This research brings some thoughts on the religious Catholic speech (RCS) about miracles. It aims at understanding the sense effects in these speeches. This dissertation considers the Discourse Analysis in the tradition of Michel Pêcheux that involves the relationship between discourse, the subject and ideology. For this purpose, on the one hand, the study brings theoretical elements related to Christianity, particularly to the Catholic Church and to the social political religious event ―Círio de Nazaré‖ that happens annually in Belém, Pará, Brazil. On the other hand, the study develops fundamental notions such as: discursive formation, ideological formation, forgetting and silence among other elements that make it possible to build an analytic device in order to understand the discursive function of the RCS. This device is analyzed in Catholic women s speeches who claimed they were healed by the intercession of the Virgin of Nazareth. These experiences are called ―miracles‖ by them. Considering the production condition of these speeches, the research aims at interpreting the sense effects of the linguistic materiality and their relationship with the discursive memory. The analysis demonstrates this relationship in utterances of the discursive corpus and it observes the interpellation established in the religious subjects when they produce speeches about miracles, updating the salvation promises to everyone who believe in the ―Word of God‖