Sexo, gênero, devoção: dramas da sexualidade em comunidades evangélicas inclusivas

Abstract

This thesis intends to trace the ways in which new approach to sexuality and sacred involving Protestant churches in Brazil emerged. Since the expansion of the Brazilian Pentecostalism in the early twentieth century to the present day. Protestant Theology, whose roots are in the Catholic tradition, despite their breaks, has dedicated part of its efforts to conserve homosexuality as a mortal sin. To understand this strongly rooted in traditional refusal evangelical discourses, we looked at some historical moments in the Catholic tradition, the lines demarcating the line between good men and women and their roles. The Protestant theological corpus understands that homosexuals reverse and transgress the barriers of genre to relate, affective and sexual relationships with people of the same sex, culminating in the overthrow of divine creation, which objectively determined the functions of male and female. However, we observed that, following the course of feminist and LGBT social movements, theology took to itself the reflection of human sexuality in its various hues as well as questions about gender roles. In this sense, the emergence of the Gay and Queer Theologies, based from the Feminist Theology, laid the foundation for the sanctification of homosexualities. Many names have emerged, from then on, with the proposal to empower the LGBT community of the chains produced by misogynistic and homophobic discourses of traditional Christian churches. Many of them, however, as the Comunidade Cristã Nova Esperança (CCNE), the object of our analysis in this thesis, eventually assimilate and reproduce traditional practices and discourses which reduce, but not extinguished, its proposed "religious revolution".