Discurso jurídico e laicidade
a critical discourse analysis of tax immunity for afro-brazilian religions
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17564/2316-381X.2026v10n3p33-56Abstract
The study intends to investigate how the content of the decision in the appeal sentence is related to the notion of legal antinomy and how this relationship can be understood in the light of the reproduction processes of Brazilian society. The research instrumentalizes, as theoretical lenses: Alan Norrie's critical theory of law and Norman Fairclough's social theory of discourse. Regarding the method, the research makes use of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), handling the categories 'lexicalization', 'interdiscursivity' and 'modes of ideological operation'. It was concluded that the lexicalization of the concepts of 'immunity-temple-cult' used for the construction of the decision, on its surface, affirm compatibility with the secular norm when recognizing the right of immunity to the religion of Candomblé, however, in the underlying concepts , the presence of modes of representation and interaction anchored in the religious-Christian discourse was identified, ideologically constituting the legal text and blocking access and broad visibility to forms such as historical violence









