Uma perspectiva etnográfica da discussão sobre a homossexualidade no contexto da IECLB

Abstract

This ethnographical research aims to discuss homosexuality in the context of Igreja Evangélica de Confissão Luterana in Brazil – IECLB, trying to comprehend how the IECLB has been facing this discussion. Besides the analysis of official documents of the institution, this research focuses on a religious community located in Pelotas/RS to observe how the community has (or has not) been discussing and how it has stood on this topic, as well as how the people who live in this community are using the scriptures to justify and normalize the sexual and affective behavior. This research is based on the perspectives of feminists’ theories and queer theory bringing discussions about the “polemic” topics in the religious view, which are most of the time muted. In this way, this work permits an introduction to the discussion about the way of pointing out the view of the people from IECLB, the ministers and the community where the ethnography was made, aiming the perspective they mention about the topic of homosexuality in the religious context.