Narrativas digitais nas redes sociais: a construção do imaginário religioso na visibilidade mediática

Abstract

The scope of this research covered some digital narratives from Catholicism in Facebook, aiming to comprehend the construction of catholic religion’s imaginary in the medial visibility, from the context of postmodernity, through digital media. The research corpus consists of analyzes of fan pages linked to Catholicism in the period from 2016 to 2020, highlighting the changes that have happened in the Catholic Church, which were caused by the Covid-19 pandemic throughout the world. The central problematic of this research is substantiated in the following questions: To what extent and under what communication procedures, mediated by technologies, are there changes in the imaginary and behavior of the Catholic religion due to its insertion in the cyberculture? Is there any space displacement in the access to the Catholicism faith benefits? Does the established speech in the social networks and/or the faith goods consumption signal a new scenario for the Church? The initial hypothesis turns around the idea that the social medias are forming a complex scheme of rapid transmutations in Catholicism, from the local of the faith manifestation to the glocal of faith experiences. Due to the hybrid nature of the object of analysis, the conceptual referencing uses as basis the glocal's and medial visibility's theory developed by Eugênio Trivinho, under inspiration in phenomenological sociodromology, and under the digital narratives' theory from Paul Ricoeur and Janet Murray. To comprehend the media networks, the analysis fundamented itself on Manuel Castells; for social media, on Rachel Recuero. Besides this, works from the theoreticians David Harvey and Frederic Jamenson were used, with regards to modern’s and post modern’s theory and criticism; and from Cornelius Castoriadis, Maffesoli and Juremir Machado Silva, to go through the imaginary’s theory. To comprehend the religious consumption, it was fundamented on Dom Slater, Nestor Canclini and Luiz Peres-Neto. The results from this investigation point out to new data, among which the new configuration of catholic religion mediated by social media is, with renovated outlines in interactive environments, where the religious “control” changes the locus from the cathedra to the faithful person, who dictates the message to be consumed