Em tempos de guerra santa: as formações imaginárias e os efeitos de sentido de um discurso religioso profético em Sergipe dos oitocentos

Abstract

This work is based on the study of discursive language supported by the Discourse Analysis (DA) paradigm of the philosopher Michel Pêcheux, whose theory highlights the relationship established between language, history and ideology. More specifically, it seeks to analyze from epistles written in the 19th century by the Sergipe priest Felismino da Costa Fontes, leader of the “os caipiras” movement, the imaginary projections of the discursive subject and the resulting meaning effects. As a method, it was based on the construction of the AD analytical device, which intersperses description, mobilization of notions and analysis of the discursive sequences that make up the corpus. The objective is to clarify the images produced by the enunciative subject regarding the events that unfolded after the conflict established between the hillbillies and the Catholic hierarchy. Therefore, the possible effects of meaning arising from the subjects' positions are highlighted, which lie not manifested between the lines of the statements. Finally, it is concluded that the discourse that emerges from the writings is heterogeneous in nature, crossed, above all, by religious discursive formation, but significantly marked by an engaged political discourse, driven by a religious ideology of a prophetic and apocalyptic.