Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: ROSINEIDE TERTULINO DE MEDEIROS GUILHERME

RELIGIOUS LITERACY: Weaving a look at literacy events in the King's Messenger Organization as a social

 transformation agency

Literacy religious. King's Messenger Organization. Social transformation.

The present research deals with a study about the relation of religious literacy and society, seeking to bring into focus evidences of the social transformations occasioned by the King 's Message Organization, existing since 1949, founded by the American missionary Minnie Lou Lanier, working with girls from 09 to 16 years. It had its mark in Rio de Janeiro, but today, we have presence of this organization in each Brazilian state. Our research is part of the field of Applied Linguistics (MOITA LOPES, 2013); Applied Critical Linguistics (RAJAGOPALAN, 2003). As far as our methodological approach is concerned, it is qualitative (CHIZZOTTI, 2005; BOGDAN, BIKLEN, 2006; ANDRÉ, 1996; CANÇADO, 1994). In terms of a theoretical approach, the research is based on the postulates of Literacy Studies (KLEIMAN, 2005; BAYNHAM, 1995; OLIVEIRA, 2010), as well as in Critical Literacy studies (FAJARDO, 2015, VASQUEZ, and finally, in Religious literacy (COULMAS, 2014; LOPES, 2006; WEBER, 2004; MONTEZANO, 2006). We aimed to identify this organization as an agency of literacy from the categories of Hamilton (2000) and also to show how the exercise of reading and writing in the life of the messenger of the King is influenced by the practice of religious literacy. In the course of the construction of this work we find positive notes of the influence of this organization generating agents that catalyze social changes.