Abstract

SOUSA, Marco Túlio  and  RODRIGUES, Donizete. The Sixth Sense and Friday the 13th: Narratives from the Universal Church in a Television Program Rede Record in Portugal. Palabra Clave [online]. 2015, vol.18, n.2, pp.563-587. ISSN 0122-8285.  https://doi.org/10.5294/pacla.2015.18.2.10.

This study aims to contribute to a better understanding of the participation of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG) in the media in Portugal and how this Brazilian denomination is related to Portuguese society and religious specificities. For the analysis, five editions of Sixth Sense (TV UCKG in Portugal) were selected, in which there are references to Friday the 13th, a date full of mysticism in popular Catholicism. Based on the narrative theory of Paul Ricoeur, a content analysis of the programs in which it uncovered the cosmology ofthe Neo-Pentecostal church: a "world" where opposing forces, representing good and evil, fighting between yes to master / save people; magic and spiritualist religions are evil ruler agents, while the UCKG is the agent of good, salvation.

Keywords : Universal Church of the Kingdom of God; Portugal; media; narrative theory; religiosity.

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