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Psicologia: Ciência e Profissão
Print version ISSN 1414-9893On-line version ISSN 1982-3703
Abstract
MOREIRA, Ana Carolina Caetano Tavares; COUTINHO, Sabrine Mantuan dos Santos and LEMOS, Mariana Schubert. Social Representations of Feminism for Christian Leaders. Psicol. cienc. prof. [online]. 2025, vol.45, e271947. Epub Apr 28, 2025. ISSN 1414-9893. https://doi.org/10.1590/1982-3703003271947.
Featuring as a hot topic in recent times, even permeating political and religious discourses, feminism is understood differently depending on different aspects, contexts and social groups. This research, based on the Theory of Social Representations, investigated how Catholic and Evangelical Christian leaders of different denominations have understood and positioned themselves in relation to issues associated with feminism. We interviewed 23 leaders, of both genders, from southeastern Brazil, with variations in age, marital status, education and role. The interviews addressed sociodemographic data and ideas, values and meanings about feminism and religious contexts. Data were submitted to two types of analysis in the IRaMuTeQ software, one being the Descending Hierarchical Classification (CHD), the results of which we describe here. These indicated understandings anchored in the idea of a social movement with legitimate agendas, such as voting rights and equal payment, schooling and professionalization, but also involved elements that highlight the political-ideological nature of the movement, objectified in imagery elements such as abortion, bra burning, sexual freedom and destruction of the family. Overall, they pointed out meanings about feminism that contain, at the same time, positive aspects, such as being associated with advances in terms of women’s rights, and negative aspects, such as being linked to discourses that are opposed to what is seen as feminine in nature, expressing a symbolic arena in which progressive and conservative ideas and values seem to coexist.
Keywords : Feminism; Religion; Social Representations; TSR; Iramuteq.
