Telemissas e Catolicismo: contemporaneidade midiática do ritual e a experiência de telefiéis

Abstract

The question that made me inquire which religious face the television church mass manifests from contemporary media and congregation experience and what the ritual displacement unfolds, even if there is a change in the altar location – from the temple to home. I use the following argument as a hypothesis: the mass broadcasted on TV is an element inside of a semiotic continuum, an extension from in person community to the televised community, from church mass to mass at home. The churchgoer, when vis-à-vis, establishes bonds and intersubjective symbolic interactionism in physical temple synaesthesia. The telecatholic, on the other hand, immersed in a multiverse world of senses instance, loses the community bonds and significant temple experience on the online mode. I use the snow ball methodology as an exploratory way to select interlocutors for the research. Inspired by the classic ethnography (GEERTZ, 1989) and virtual ethnography (HINE, 2004), researching the empirical field readapting it to the Religion Science. As focusing tools I use questionnaires, in-depth interviews and participant observations in the phenomenal field. Through the telecatholics mapping using lexical and semantic map methodology, I did an analysis and intersecting the data obtained through above-mentioned methodologies, noting confluences and dissensions in the theoretical framework chosen for this study. For this purpose, I make a contextual cut with telecatholics from Juiz de Fora and São José das Três Ilhas from Minas Gerais. Masses on TV go through cultural convergence on social media, revamping traditional “sensorial shapes” and “semiotic ideology”. The telecatholics feeling isn’t the liturgical fervor anymore as in “affective tribes time”, at the charismatic renovation with “ritual effervescence”, but make up in the intersperse of multi relational interactions interconnecting the virtual masses. The emotions resonating through the screens, now count with individualism connected in a ramified net. Lastly, this thesis suggests an interpretative and semiotics hermeneutical about the Brazilian phenomenal about catholics religious experiences through TV masses on contemporaneity. Neighboring two classic authors, and their respective concepts - Geertz (1989) and his “meanings’ net” and Schutz (2019) with “daily life’s world” -, I seek to describe as of who lives a religious experience, in other words, telechatolics. I analyse authors that themes are tangential for the articulation spinning around two columns: investigating telecatholics experiences through the field research and documental-historical researches about TV masses.