Entre la fe y el fanatismo: discursos de sanación en el programa “milagros de fe” en la Iglesia Universal Ecuador

Abstract

The present research entitled: "BETWEEN FAITH AND FANATISM: HEALING SPEECHES IN THE PROGRAM "MIRACLES OF FAITH" IN THE UNIVERSAL CHURCH ECUADOR" begins with the bibliographical compilation with the objective of describing the illocutionary and perlocutionary force in the narrative discourse of faith in the Universal Church Ecuador through the speech of the "divine mantle." In the present project a descriptive exploratory methodology was carried out within a qualitative approach. It was based on a discourse analysis matrix on healing that was modified according to the needs present in this study. These contain the speech acts: assertive, directive, committing, expressive and declarative. In the same way linguistic acts like: locutive, illocutionary and perlocutionary. The thesis is divided into: Chapter I, theoretical framework, which contains authors who speak about religion, pastoral power, media faith and pragmatics. Chapter II indicates the proposed methodology and its qualitative approach. Chapter III, the analysis of the results and the development of the research are demonstrated. Finally, Chapter IV indicates the conclusions of the interpretation of the data. The main conclusions were that religion is present in the day to day of people through the churches whether they are Catholic or Protestant. Those who guide these religious cults have a power of conviction thanks to their charisma and knowledge about the divine. Understanding that pragmatics plays a fundamental role in understanding the context and the diverse meaning that each of the statements presented in the dialogue between the pastor and the believer can express