Gender in educational and public discourse of the Church. Analysis of the Pastoral Letter on the Feast of the Holy Family
Gender in educational and public discourse of the Church. Analysis of the Pastoral Letter on the Feast of the Holy Family

Summary/Abstract: Gender as a category of cultural gender and gender identityappears not only in scientific discourse as a topic of research,but also in public discourse, as a subject of variousdebates and disputes. This concept was also included intothe discourse of the Catholic Church. Its creators – churchleaders – embarked upon a public reinterpretation of theconcept of gender, thus inserting their point of view into thebroader political and ideological dispute. The aim of this paperis to review the postulates of the church concerning genderin the Pastoral Letter on the Feast of the Holy Family,which seems to be a leading programme paper concerningthis issue. In this paper, gender as a research and scientificcategory is isolated from the scientific discourse and appropriatedby the educational discourse of the church, whereit functions as a scare tactic. Structural modifications in thetext and style of the letter, stylistic and rhetorical tricks, aswell as pragmatic mechanisms, make the text of the pastoralletter a persuasive political argument

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