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Economia, religião e as tramas do reconhecimento na política da redemocratização
Keywords:
Religião, Política, Evangélicos, EconomiaAbstract
The recent approchement between neo-Pentecostals and conservative political agendas has been heating up debates about secularization and markets, mainly because of the uncomfortable mistrust of observers to the left of the political spectrum. This article intends to explore the meanings of this relationship. However, this will be done considering the intersections between religion, politics and also economics, but focusing on the theme of recognition. To do so, first: using secondary sources and statistics, features of the economy and morality will be mapped to help understand the direction of change in self-image and perception of the world of religious. Then, the approximations between evangelicals and politics in the dictatorship were historically circumscribed, with a minimal description of their internal ideological struggles among evangelicals. This step will serve to understand the evangelical political participation during the re-democratization. In the end, it reflects on expressive and market patterns present in the most politically active religious modalities today. This, considering the current context in which traditional identifications between religion and nation-state are being questioned. At the same time, this Protestantism, which in Brazil was minority religiosity, defensive and the beneficiary of old struggles for the consolidation of a secular stateabove confessions, would no longer exist. Thus, one wonders whether the recent political successes of the conservative right mean that the country is becoming more conservative in terms of economy and / or customs. If so, more conservative about what and in what direction? And, since such a conservative victory occurs simultaneously with the considerable numerical growth of the Christian segment, how would the correlations between one and the other take place? Which leads us to one last question: to what extent could we speak of a struggle for state acceptance, of criteria for human recognition and appreciation of a collective on religious grounds?