Discurso religioso no cárcere: caminhos e possibilidades

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to identify the effect of religious discourse on the process of re-signification of the self of men living in the Cataguases Prison (MG) and to analyze the impact of this re-signification on the fulfillment of the sentence and its interactions with the social groups that work in that environment. Taking the theoretical basis of Goffman's symbolic interactionism and the analysis of Pêcheux's French discourse, the work develops from the prison school (2013), extending to the galleries of the prison (2016), and to accompany the religious groups that Act in the prison institution (2017). Beginning with a description of the context of the research and the consideration of opinions of other actors who participate in prison daily life, the study is launched in the analysis of religious interdiscourse in poems produced at school and published in the poetry anthology "Poets of Freedom" (2013) and Culminates with the participant observation in the galleries of the prison, in which are analyzed not only the words of the prisioners, but also the dynamic of interaction that involves the religious. The end result is the exposition of a complex web of meanings constructed throughout the chapters, which point to the paths and possibilities that result from the appropriation of religious discourse by the prisoners inside and outside the prison walls.