“Is the telenovela from God?”: Ambiguities in the relationship between Catholicism and television drama in Brazil

A first analytical movement is carried out in order to understand how Catholicism interacts with television drama in Brazil. A documentary research was carried out in two areas: 1) public statements by sectors of the Catholic Church in the media; and 2) how television drama was appropriated by Catho...

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Autores: de Sousa, Marco Túlio, Barbosa Fialho Martins, Rafael
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:Brasil
Recursos:Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG)
Repositorio:Comunicação & Informação (Online)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.revistas.ufg.br:article/74019
Acesso em linha:https://revistas.ufg.br/ci/article/view/74019
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Brazilian Catholicism
Telenovela
Catholic soap operas
Teledramaturgy
Catolicismo brasileño
Telenovelas católicas
Teledramaturgia
Catolicismo brasileiro
Novelas católicas
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Resumo:A first analytical movement is carried out in order to understand how Catholicism interacts with television drama in Brazil. A documentary research was carried out in two areas: 1) public statements by sectors of the Catholic Church in the media; and 2) how television drama was appropriated by Catholic-inspired television stations. The conclusion is that the institution establishes an ambiguous relationship, characterized in three categories, namely, denial (i.e. criticism of religious sectors to the soap opera), appropriation (i.e. Catholic television stations producing television drama) and exhibition (i.e. broadcasting of content produced by other stations).