O que eu rezo quando você prega: os modos de recepção de mensagens religiosas veiculadas pelo rádio, no programa do padre Marcelo Rossi

Abstract

This thesis is the result of an investigation about the meanders of female listeners reception process taking place at Momento de Fé , radio program hosted by Father Marcelo Rossi from Monday to Friday from 9 to 10 a.m. on Globo AM Radio. Our starting point were reception esthetic studies such as the ones proposed by authors Wolfgang Iser, Hans Robert Jauss e Raymond Williams. Those studies point out the ambivalence of communication messages and also their mediating characteristic between the empirical real and the imaginary. It was possible, therefore, to understand the creative intervention involved both in the production and in the reception of these messages. The imaginary is activated in all of the agents who participate in the communication process. Reality, in all its layers, is something to be constructed, a process not unfrequently fraught with contradiction and conflict designed to produce esthetical and reflexive effects as well as religious ones. Meaning is elaborated both by those who codify the message and also by those who interpret them. It is hence a collective work deriving from the confrontation among all the participants of the communication process. This process generates a number of differents forms of subjectivity and relationships. Deep layers of culture and subjectivity come into play as a result of this interaction between public and media, bringing forth solace, explanation for all the evils, cure for diseases, solutions for individual familiar and collective impasses. This set of circumstances allows a large part of the audience an opportunity to relate to religious messages that, at this day and age, are intrinsically linked to culture and mass communication. The individual integrates them into this life and so feels included in the social dynamics since the decodification of religious messages makes the sharing of meanings possible and produces communities. The investigation we carried out in our research does not limit itself to method, but also proposes a methodological approach which captures information about the object through several forms within the scenario at hand. Although the focal point of this thesis is analythical rather than descriptive, a bibliographical research on radio communication, its associated worshipping practices and its structural elements interfering in production and in reception was conducted by us