A cartografia de um campo: singularidades e possibilidades nas relações entre religião e consumo nos trabalhos desenvolvidos na Comunicação

Abstract

This work presents a cartographic summary regarding four zones (a metaphor borrowed from the cartography of road web) of the academic production which group, during the last ten years, articles, dissertations and theses developed under the thematic of religion and consumption on Communication Studies. This paper aims to debate about epistemological bonds and levels of articulation among different theoretical chains that, sometimes, get close and, sometimes, far. It is an exploratory study which proposes to sum up, through a map, the key-approaches found in the researches in Communication, indicating particularities regarding these studies and what distinguish Communication when deals with researches regarding theses thematic.