A Ovelha Rosa: analisando o trânsito religioso na autobiografia O profeta gay, do Reverendo Francisco Ferreira Júnior

Abstract

The logic of the cis-heteronormative pattern defended by the dominant theology kept, for a long time, the LGBTQIAPN+ population excluded from the Christian sphere. This religious standardization has been debated and (re)formulated amid great tensions. This work aims to define Inclusive and Traditional Theology and analyze the religious transit of the Reverend Francisco Ferreira Júnior based on his autobiography: The gay prophet, launched in 2018, the result of a Course Completion Work (TCC), for the training of clerics of Metropolitan Community Churches. In order for this objective to be achieved, a detailed analysis of his work and the search for interpretation and understanding of the autobiographical narrative through other readings was necessary. This is a bibliographic and documentary research, of the case study type, with a qualitative approach, which used the deductive method to identify and analyze the meanings constructed from these texts. The results show that religious transit is a subjective process of each individual that causes some degree of symbolic, theological or dogmatic change and that Inclusive Theology is opposed to Traditional Theology in terms of homosexuality. It is concluded that such a debate is important in the Science of Religions because it exposes the experience of a subject in face of the theological social changes existing in Christianity, its conflicts and meanings of the sacred.