Ateísmo e redes sociais: história e novas fronteiras para o debate historiográfico.

Abstract

Derived from a scientific initiation research developed between 2016 and 2017, this work analyzes the presence of atheists and agnostics in social networks. We address the discourses produced by these subjects who, purposely, are presented as unrelated to a religious belief. Considering that we live in a very religious country, with a Christian majority, but in which religious diversity has grown, we seek to point out important aspects of the construction of new identities, this time not related to a faith, but to the possibility and the right not to believe. Considering also the dynamics of communication in the virtual space, this work aims to understand how social networks have intensified the possibilities of identifying themselves as non-religious, thus increasing the visibility and the number of atheists, besides presenting the diffusion of their ideals , by means of a kind of atheistic / agnostic proselytizing. We also sought to highlight how the Internet presents itself as a new frontier of debates in relation to its own historiography.