Igreja Católica no mundo digital: as tensões entre discurso e prática da Igreja na era da internet e as redes de relacionamento do Círio de Nazaré, em Belém do Pará, como fenômeno de midiatização

Abstract

This paper seeks to analyze the processes of interaction between faithful and church, specifically in social networking largest Catholic procession of Latin America: The Candle of Our Lady of Nazareth, held every second Sunday of October in the capital of Pará, Belém do Pará. The networking of the Candle, specifically Facebook, are still recents strategies used by the church to evangelize, digital media on calls originating web 2.0 and Cyberculture, in a society in the process of mediatization. In these new communication platforms, religion begins to change their ways of communicating. And the faithful? These are replaced and relevant central role in this new scenario. In this analysis, are discussed changes that begin to emerge in the discourse and practice of the Catholic Church provided by the insertion of the church in the digital world as well as the tensions encountered along this route between saying and doing the religious institution. Are perceived, yet, the differences found in the opinions of the priests themselves, regarding the use, purpose and other details regarding evangelization in the digital medium. As a case study, we analyze the speeches of Internet digital media in the Candle of Nazareth, seeing if there is a change in the mode of being and doing religion and a new way of being religious that is emerging in social networking Internet, with the increasing mediatization of society.