Direitos humanos e os trabalhos da imaginação: uma etnografia da ordenação da primeira reverenda trans da América Latina

Abstract

This text is articulated around the ethnography of the clerical ordination of Alexya Salvador, the first transgender Latin American pastor. Interested in describing and reflecting on possible contemporary ways of correlating the categories of religion and human rights, this analysis focuses on the production of iconic scenes, communication artifacts that inscribe living pictures into networks oriented to redefine the meanings of these categories based on concrete and communicable experiences. Under this framework, human rights can be understood as a language in action that allows agents who designates and recognized themselves as religious to give form and expression to their imagination, which are unmarked by stabilized borders between the political, the religious and, in this case, the erotic.