“Transar pode, mas você não deveria”: a representação da homossexualidade no discurso espírita brasileiro

• Ano de defesa: 2020
• Autor(a) principal: Pereira, Francisco Jomário
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal da Paraíba; Brasil; Sociologia; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sociologia; UFPB
• Palavras-chave em Português: Religião; Espiritismo; Sexo; Sexualidade; Identidade; Religion; Spiritism; Sex; Sexuality; Identity; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::SOCIOLOGIA
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/123456789/18599

This thesis aims to analyze the representations of sex and sexuality constructed from the interpretation of Brazilian spiritism. In this attempt, we use autoetnography method to demarcate the researcher's place of speech, political and social position. As a methodological resource, we used Discourse Analysis to analyze the corpus that includes, the Spiritist Pentateuco, literary works and speeches by Divaldo Pereira Franco, who today personifies spiritism in Brazil, as well as works by Chico Xavier. In addition to these works, we conducted interviews with gay spiritist men, in order to understand the representations and identities constructed from the influence of spiritism. Thus, supported by the Sociology of Religion and Foucault's theory, we observe that those representations constructed in the literature we based on and in the speeches of our interlocutors converge with the Christian perspective, being reconfigured from the appropriation of scientific discourse, specifically that of Carl Gustav Jung. It constitutes a discursive strategy that acts as if the author / doctrine were (dis) responsible for the punitive saying that is built around sex, sexuality and homosexuality, what we call the pedagogization of (dis) responsibilization. So, we observe that a disciplinary silence is instituted on issues related to sexuality, sex and homosexuality. Thus, strategies for pedagogizing sexuality are created based on the notion of sublimation of sexual experiences. Sublimation is understood as being part of the spiritual evolutionary process. Being implicated in the Law of Action and Reaction inscribed in the subject's consciousness from the existence of the Divine Law. The logic of sublimation implies the subject's responsibility for the choice of the sexual affective career. This way, The responsibility of gay spiritist subjects provides a unique construction in the Christian religious universe, considering that Brazilian spiritualism rewrites homosexuality in the traditional discourse as natural, removing the notion of sin, as well as the logic of treatments to combat this sexual orientation.