Um corpo estranho no santuário: discursos institucionais e experiências de indivíduos homossexuais entre pentecostais, neopentecostais e carismáticos católicos.

Abstract

In this Dissertation we have as research object the institutional religious discourses on the homosexuality, and as well the experiences of homosexual individuals in the God Assembly, Universal Church of God's Kingdom and into charismatic catholic groups in Campina Grande. Our theoretical perspective had in Goffman its main inspiration and was also based in the anthropological and sociological debate on the subject. As data collection instruments we used questionnaires, which were answered by Campina Grande's Homosexual Association members, and we also carried out semi-structured interviews with an intentional sample of those members and with religious leaders of those institutions cited above. Among the main outputs of our research we point out the following: (l)the conceptions both catholic and evangelical we observed in interviews and questionnaires express the persistence of a rejection of homosexual behavior, which are defined as sin through diverse discursive strategies and day by day practices (2) the different forms of rejection and disqualification of sexual diversity we found in those discursive strategies and practices produce and reproduce stigmatization forms, an also influence processes of homosexual subjectivities and identities.