No engraçado há “graça”?: o discurso religioso na mídia e os efeitos de sentido do humor

Abstract

This work aims to understand the effects of humor sense in the media configuration of the Pentecostal Evangelic Religious discourse, and its using as an instrument of an ideological struggle in the social relations of production. The corpus of this research is composed by excerpts of the television program Victory in Christ, of Silas Malafaia Pastor, from the God’s Assembly Church. The theoretical foundation in which this investigation is situated centers in the Pêcheux’s Discourse Analysis presuppositions and cornerstones according to our focus of interest, in other words, the humor in the functioning of Pentecostal Evangelic Religious Discourse. As analysis results, we comprehend that the using of a mass media as a vehicle of evangelism undertakes a spectacle to religion, in which the functioning of humor reveals, through the stigmatized stereotypes reproduction, the “denied” discourse. Thus, in humor, the politics of muzzling naturalizes the laugh and produces certain effects in the production of the “evangelic” imaginary to maintain the senses in the dominant social relations.