A mística-minoritária: um conceito para a análise da experiência religiosa de homens transexuais

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  • John Elton Costa dos Santos Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
  • Maria Teresa Nobre Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte - UFRN https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5085-4296

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22478/ufpb.1982-6605.2022v19n2.65947

Abstract

Abstract

The article discusses the religious experience of transsexual men in spaces of religious congregation and aims to present the concept of mystic-minority, as a tool to discuss this phenomenon. The mystical-minority is a concept proposed for the analysis of the singular process of this experience, built from the authors Michel de Certeau, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, seeking to expand their concepts of mystique and becoming-minority. It also starts from Michel Foucault's contributions on self-care, considering the emergence of other discursivities and active micropolitics in the religious practices of transsexual men. This is a theoretical essay, based on bibliographical research, supported by an incursion into the field through participant observation, in an event of an Inclusive Church. The reflections produced about the religious experience of transsexual men show dissonant aspects: on the one hand, the power of reinventing new practices and symbols, elements that point to the production of life; on the other, prejudice, exclusion, discrimination and murders that express a desire to eliminate the LGBTQIA+ population. In this scenario, the religious experience has emerged as a possibility of confrontation and resistance, of strengthening life, in the perspective of a mystical-minority life, always dissident, always becoming.

Keywords: Transsexual men; Religious experience ; Mystical-minority.

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Published

2023-09-28

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DOS SANTOS, John Elton Costa; NOBRE, Maria Teresa. A mística-minoritária: um conceito para a análise da experiência religiosa de homens transexuais. Religare, [S. l.], v. 19, n. 2, p. 140–163, 2023. DOI: 10.22478/ufpb.1982-6605.2022v19n2.65947. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufpb.br/index.php/religare/article/view/65947. Acesso em: 27 jun. 2026.

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