Discurso religioso acerca do autismo

This article analyzes, from the perspective of the action of centripetal and centrifugal forces, an enunciative scene in which Priest Washington Almeida has an ableist speech perceived in an utterance in religious context that might highlight worldviews of the Evangelical Christian Segment regarding autism. To this end, we selected a video from the profile @autismobr, on the Instagram platform, that replicates an enunciative scene from the aforementioned minister as well as the answers of internet users about the position of the religious leader. The theoretical-methodological reflection is based on the Dialogical Theory of Language (TDL) from Bakhtin’s Circle and, above all, on the considerations regarding dialogical relationships, voices, and centripetal and centrifugal forces. We are also anchored in studies about inclusion of people with disabilities and religious discourse. The analysis of this work indicates that the pastor's religious discourse reflects and refracts a Christian worldview that reveals the understanding that disability is the result of a “divine condemnation”, which may suggest the consummation of sin. However, the internet users' comments present movements of centralization and decentralization regarding to this Christian perspective

Consummation · Conversation · Dialogical self · Utterance · Psychology and Mental Health · Religion and Society in Latin America · Religious and Theological Studies