Memory and religion: analysis from the discourse aspects in documents from a higher education adventist institution in Brazil

This article aims to explain if the memory of the Adventist Church has been recalled through the working of its Educational System in Brazil, checking how this happens and if this resumption contributes to the maintenance and to the growth of this religion in that country. One started from the hypothesis that this Educational System works as a space of memory (HALBWACHS, 1990 [1950]) of the Adventist religion in Brazil and boosts the growth of this religion in this country. The corpus of the analysis is composed from institutional documents of the Adventist College of Bahia (FADBA), which was analyzed based on some concepts from the French School of Discourse Analysis (AD). In the description and analysis of occurrences from the corpus, one checked the materialization of discursive regularities, such as pre-constructed, memory effects and allusions to both the Bible and Ellen White writings, educational advisor and cofounder of the Adventist religion. Thus, based on the analysis done, the referred occurrences were systematized in two axes of analysis such as: i) Adventist Education as a Christian Education; ii) Adventist Education as an Integral Education, which proved the hypothesis that the Educational Adventist model works as a Place of Discourse Memory (FONSECA-SILVA, 2007) of the Adventist religion.