Valores, religião e cultura: as diferentes concepções religiosas na paróquia Nossa Senhora das Graças

Abstract

The object of the analysis of this investigation is the cleric s discourse in the parish Nossa Senhora das Graças in the period from August 2000 to December 2001, during the Sunday homilies .Its aims to realize the understanding and interpretation that churchgoers of this community make about this discourse. A discourse in an organized celebration with biblical texts requires that the president, or being, the priest who preside the celebration, on the one hand, respect and explain the celebrative messages, and on the other hand, adapt to the cultural situation and the demands of the faith of the listeners. He should be aware of their spiritual and cultural conditions. Upon researching the existing relationship among current values in the discourse of the cleric and churchgoers, we aim to clear up the motives that cause these churchgoers to change to diverse parishes that profess the same religious creed, in this case the Catholicism. The cleric s discourse in the parish Nossa Senhora das Graças attempts to show how the obligation of a Christian who develops concrete attitudes is. Not all the churchgoers interpret it in this way. We know through the research that the fact of the faithful catholic not having an understanding of the discourse utilized by the priest of this specific parish is related to the fact that the content of the discourse presents a macro-social vision, while the churchgoer looks for through religion or the institution of the Church, a communication with God related to his everyday problems, in familial relations and everything which involves his life. It s possible to perceive in the discourse of the priests and the reliable of this parish, the religious conception that each one has and insists on transmit.