Relações dialógicas em discursos típicos do charlatanismo de igrejas neopentecostais em elementos de cura: água e óleo

Abstract

This article aims to carry out a dialogic analysis of discursive practices at the time of presenting water and anointed oil for healing in neo-Pentecostal churches, establishing for this purpose, dialogic relations with the typical statements of charlatanism language and with biblical narratives. For this purpose, we selected two videos to compose our corpus: a video from the Igreja Mundial do Poder de Deus, which presents the sale of anointed water; another, from the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, a call-invitation to acquire the consecrated oil. In both videos, the elements are presented as intermediaries of healing. The theoretical basis is based on the interrelationship between Bakhtin's Dialogical Theory (2011) and Poter's (1997) studies on charlatanism language. Through the established interdiscursive relations, that is, the dialogical relations between the three discourses: the charlatanesque, the biblical and the religious, the latter analyzed from the discourse of religious leaders of churches classified as neo-Pentecostal, we were able to conclude that, in the composition of the discourses of the leaders, regarding the healing elements - water and oil - bring with them “voices” from other speeches. And these “voices”, both contribute to the construction and continuity of attributing miraculous factors to these elements in people's imagination, and to relating such speeches as typical of charlatanism.