Place of Discursive Memory and Scenography in the Lausanne Covenant

Abstract

The purpose of this chapter is to analyze the Lausanne Covenant, a text produced at the end of the World Evangelization Conference 1974, in Lausanne, Switzerland, by checking how memory crossed the document, reconfiguring the effects of meaning materialized in that text. The question is, therefore, to answer the following question: How has memory reshaped different meaning effects (discourses) in the document Lausanne Pact, produced at the end of the International Congress of World Evangelization 1974?Based on the description of the selected and cataloged data, we found that during the International Congress of World Evangelization 1974, a group of South American evangelical leaders, represented by congressmen René Padilla and Samuel Escobar, gained notoriety and prominence, which culminated with the elaboration of a document that sought to affirm issues related to social justice in the practice of protestant Christian evangelism. Based on this data, we hypothesized that such insertion was mainly due to the eruption of questions situated in the intersection of religious discourse and Marxism, which are linked to the functioning of discursive memory.