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O artigo apresenta, uma leitura evangélica inglesa do motivo do cavaleiro Galahad da távola redonda do rei Artur na primeira parte do século vinte, como foco na abordagem especial do pintor inglês metodista Frank Owen Salisbury (1874-1962). O contexto dessa integração dessa figura mitológica inglesa nos discursos religiosos, parte da sua redescoberta literária ao redor de 1850, passa pela sua vinculação com a teologia eucarística católica e chega nos protestantismos ingleses como símbolo de um homem virtuoso e encontra-se em pinturas, litografias e vitrais. Entre os diversos artistas metodistas, destaque-se na época Frank Owen Salisbury (1874-1962), em nível nacional e internacional. Dentro da Igreja Metodista na Inglaterra, o motivo do cavaleiro Galahad é apreciado pela associação metodista britânica de juventude, a “Guilda de Wesley”, fundada em 1895, onde serve como modelo de piedade e santidade. Sob essa influência metodista, Salisbury usou o motivo na ornamentação da sua casa (pintura de 1932), em um vitral na Igreja de John Wesley em Londres (1932), em uma Capela da Juventude Congregacional (1932) e em um livro sobre o Pai Nosso (1948). Integrou-se na narrativa bíblico-cristã e denominacional um mito nacional para fortalecer a identidade denominacional metodista britânica e acompanhou-se e sedimentou-se esse processo pela criação e aceitação da respectiva cultura visual criada por Francis Owen Salisbury.. more...

O artigo apresenta e interpreta a gravura De smalle en de brede Weg (o caminho estreito e o caminho largo) de Hieronymus Wierix, criada no ano de 1619 na cidade de Antuérpia, já sob domínio espanhol. O objetivo é analisar uma expressão da cultura visual religiosa católica que influenciou as Américas e o Brasil colônia e que inspirou a cultura visual evangélica brasileira, no caso, mediante a xilogravura de Charlotte Reihlen no século 19. Como método aplicam-se os três passos de interpretação de arte religiosa renascentista propostos por Ernst Panofsky, a descrição pré-iconográfica, a análise iconográfica e a interpretação iconológica. Espera-se enriquecer a compreensão da cultura visual religiosa na América Latina e no Brasil, inclusive em sua transconfessionalidade, investigando seu rico fundo imaginário. more...

Resenha: NOGUEIRA, Paulo Agostinho de Souza (Org.). Religião e Linguagem: abordagens teóricas interdisciplinares. São Paulo: Paulus, 2015. (Coleção Sociologia e religião). 446 p

Under the paradigm of Modernity, one believed in the direct referentiality between concept and world, signs and reality. With the new linguistic studies, the fissure and discontinuity between thing and word revealed the limitation of metanarratives and their derivations. The natural consequence of this horizon was a real turning point in the Human Sciences. The language was perceived not like direct reflection of the things, but like symbolic. For the studies of religion, these renewed perspectives on language theories served as paradigmatic change, producing a true methodological explosion. Thus methodologies for the language studies have been gaining ground in the studies of religion, making it possible to understand it as a locus of meaning. In this way, the multiple languages of religion, sometimes treated as real's distortion or alienating ideological, are accessed as a complex system of narratives, symbols, rites, arts and performances suitable for the creation and understanding of the World. From this concern, the researches of the Languages of Religion are established whose theoretical contributions and objects advance to the symbolic production of religion. Within this methodological discussion, concerned with understanding and interpreting the languages produced by religion, the article intends to present the Discourse Analysis translated for the studies of religion and its methodological contributions to the studies of religious discourse. The text will present, in the first part, the main theoretical contributions of the French Discourse Analysis. This task will point out some intuitions and provocations enabling a Religious Discourse Analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] more...

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The relationship between religion and language is the focus of renewed attention in the Brazilian graduate programs in Religious Studies through Congress working groups and areas of concentration devoted to the study of what is conventionally called Religious Languages. This article proposes a link to this new field of study through a semiotic and cognitive approach, suggesting the study of religion as a secondary language system through three fundamental semiotic systems: gesture, image (metaphor) and narrative. Their religious counterparts are ritual, icon (poetry) and myth. These three systems work together as hybrid and multi codified cultural texts, with a high level of power in creating new messages. Finally, the article also discusses the fictional and grotesque aspects of religious expressions as well as some of its distinctive features. According to them, besides the fact that religion structures the world, religion tends to stress and explicit the "as if" games of culture, and pushes cultural representations to the borders of its established systems. Religion proposes to culture dense and kaleidoscopic representation systems, who articulate textually ambiguous and paradoxal aspects of social life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] more...