Religião e relações de força: uma análise discursiva do texto “Manifesto à Nação”, da Igreja Católica Apostólica Brasileira

This article analyzes the text entitled, Manifesto to the Nation, written by Dom Carlos Duarte Costa, founder of the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church (ICAB). It is a historical document that, in its textuality, materializes relations of force in dispute for positions of power in the religious sphere. Our theoretical framework is Discourse Analysis, founded by Michel Pêcheux (1988;1997;1999 with contributions from Eni Orlandi (1987; 1996a; 1996b; 2001;2002; 2006; 2007). From the analyses we understand the functioning of the power relations between its interlocutors: the ICAB, the Brazilian nation, the pope and the Roman Church. We consider that in the materiality of this Manifesto the places of those who speak and those who listen and where they speak and where they listen are decisive in the confrontations of meanings present in its textuality. The power relationsin the Manifesto, are marked, above all, by Dom Carlos' attempt to create meaning and establish another subject position, through the voice of the new institution, the Church. Finally, we saw that the movement of meanings takes place in the game of control/confrontation, enabling the installation of another site of significance within the scope of Brazilian religiosity.