Religião, juventude e sexualidade: a recepção dos discursos papais no grupo de oração semeador

Abstract

In Brazil there are several religious groups that are articulated around a young audience. The Catholic Charismatic Renewal (RCC) is a very expressive example when it comes to the themes of Youth and Religion. These religious groups manifest themselves in religious and nonreligious environments. In the charismatic case, they manifest themselves inside and outside the religious context mainly through the Prayer Groups (GO) in parishes and universities. The GO's are focused on prayer, praise, living of the gospel and especially to the experience with the Holy Spirit, while they are the bases of support of the charismatic movement. Such groups are also spaces for the diffusion of religious discourse, especially regarding the topic of sexuality in the case of youth groups. This work seeks, therefore, to understand the reality experienced by the young people of GO Semeador located in the City of Inhumas-GO. Based on Max Weber's theory of social spheres, this work seeks to understand the reality experienced by the young people of the GO and to understand how the group becomes a space for the diffusion of the official discourses of the Catholic Church, in view of the participant observation of meetings of the GO Semeador and the interviews with the young people who attend the group, notes influences of the papal discourses spread by the Catholic institution in the form of conceiving sexuality. In this way, we identify a tension between the social spheres, which are the religious and the erotic spheres, referring to the Catholic Christian conception of body and sexuality that focuses on a family pattern focused on procreation. Thus, the erotic sphere when conquering its relative autonomy, has its own rules in conceiving the body in the logic of sexual love.