COVID-19 PANDEMIC AS A DISCURSIVE EVENT IN THE RELIGIOUS FIELD

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https://doi.org/10.20873/2025_jul_16827

Abstract

In this article, we present the results of a research that aimed to analyze the COVID-19 pandemic as a discursive event in the religious field, verifying which discourses are materialized in the statements of religious groups and which memories are resumed and updated in the face of the pandemic. The corpus is composed of texts that circulated in digital media, from March 2020 to March 2021, and that deal with the relationship between religious discourse and the pandemic. The hypothesis is that the historical event of the COVID-19 health crisis was also configured as a discursive event, which resumes different memories, linked to subject positions that refer both to the religious field and to the medical-scientific and economic fields. In the analyses, we used the theoretical assumptions of the French School of Discourse Analysis, presented in the works of Michel Pêcheux. The results confirm the hypothesis that the historical event of the COVID-19 health crisis was configured as a discursive event in the religious field, as it established new sayings and allowed shifts of meaning, linked to different subject positions.

Published

2025-10-20

How to Cite

Santos, N. G. P. A., & Gomes da Silva, E. (2025). COVID-19 PANDEMIC AS A DISCURSIVE EVENT IN THE RELIGIOUS FIELD. DESAFIOS - Revista Interdisciplinar Da Universidade Federal Do Tocantins, 12(6), 274–294. https://doi.org/10.20873/2025_jul_16827