Estratégias de engajamento e ativismo político religioso na Igreja da Comunidade Metropolitana do Rio de Janeiro (ICM-Rio).

Abstract

This article aims to understand the links between religion and religious political activism based on processes of mobilization and engagement of subjects inserted in the Metropolitan Community Church in Rio de Janeiro (MCC-Rio). We sought to understand the ways in which ICM-Rio operates, taking the years 2018 and 2019 as a time frame, highlighting how the experiences along this path mobilize their action strategies based on activities such as Chá das Drags and theological and academic seminars with a view to engaging the subjects included in ICM-Rio. Such elaborations are related to current historical dynamics, permeated by moral guidelines considered neoconservative that have been gaining prominence in the political and social conjuncture. The background that runs through the time frame of the research was the national rise of the then federal deputy Jair Messias Bolsonaro, of Social Liberal Party of Rio de Janeiro state, in the presidential election, in 2018. This context, permeated by the fear of a setback in the field of human rights, it is presented through cults that dealt with the political and social situation and the collective guidelines of evangelical actors in the public space. MCC-Rio engaged practice assumes its political-religious activism through the universalist grammar of human rights, by emphasizing the language of sexual and reproductive rights, in favor of sexual diversity.