FROM SYMBOLIC VIOLENCE TO DECLARED INQUISTION

Abstract

For some time it was thought that the modern face of fundamentalism was restricted to symbolic violence, at most discursive. The objective of this research is to demonstrate how fundamentalism violence is perceived and felt by society. In the first case, through the approximation between religion and mass culture, especially Comics, for this we selected the graphic novel “X-Men: God loves, man kills”, by Chris Claremont and Eric Anderson, originally published in 1982, as an example of perceived, symbolic violence, which in addiction to bringing the representation of fundamentalist discourse taken to its ultimate consequences, highlights the manipulation of the religion and its language. In the second case, the present text presents two cases brought from the Brazilian Baptists, in which violence was felt due to the existence of intolerance and the inquisitive spirit that constitudes compasses for the political-religious persecution carried out against the leaders who illustrate this condition.