Corpos (des)ordenados: o projeto performativo de homossexualidade em documentos da Igreja Católica

Abstract

Religious discourse has a big influence on the plot of social relationships. Thinking specifically about Christian religious discourse, it is possible to notice that Western societies take what is said and done within the domains of churches as a parameter to justify attitudes and decisions, which includes, among many other issues, prejudice against (homo)sexuality. Thus, this research aims to discuss the production of meanings that involve the relationship between the Catholic Church and (homo)sexuality, understanding what it is based on and what previous discourses it redeems. For this purpose, the discussion is based on assumptions of Queer Linguistics, an area of linguistic studies that studies the relationship between language, gender, identity and identity and social practices. In this sense, the work starts from a theoretical-analytical methodology of qualitative character, aiming to understand the problem in question from a look of strangeness to the discourses that involve this relationship. As objects for analysis, excerpts from three oficial Vatican documents were selected: the Persona Humanae Declaration on some points of sexual ethics (1975), the Catechism of the Catholic Church (1992) and the declaration Responsum ad debium (2021). Indeed, it is noticeable the influence of Catholic religious discourse in the production of meanings, bodies and lives, whether in the maintenance of stigmas, in the creation of new ones or in the removal of them, which is done based on presuppositions of the Church itself. To develop this discussion, a dialogue is established with the ideas of Austin (1990), Bakhtin (1929), Borba (2014, 2015), Butler (1990, 1993), Lewis (2012), Louro (2004) and Santos Filho (2012, 2020), among other studies, aiming to substantiate knowledge about the research area and about the object concerned.