Religião e política: a contribuição da religião para a “renovação conservadora” da política contemporânea brasileira

Abstract

The Brazilian religious field was in the spotlight of many media and political conversations since the 2018 elections, fundamentalist conceptions of God, men and the world stimulated topics such as the defense of the heteronormative family, the “good costumes”, the Cristian moral, and a God’s reign on Earth. The slogan God, Country and Family, utilized in Jair Bolsonaro’s political campaign and government, mobilized a social-religious movement uniting many conservative forces, such as Protestants and Catholics. The issue motivating this research is to comprehend in which ways the religious language, present in the new Protestant Church, is used to action political support into a renewed political conservative movement. Some hypotheses were raised about the Baptist leaderships charismatic power, the cell orientation, the courses and symbolic languages used in religious communities to attract and talk in support of a political candidate. In order to understand this religious sociopolitical portrait, the subject was analyzed in a collective religious experience since religion as phenomenology involves theory, practice and religious experience while promoting an ethos in search of sanctity and salvation, safeguarded by the subject in their social relationships. The quantitive and qualitative methodology used with bibliographic revisions, social media video analyzes and participant observation promoted analysis of minister’s speeches occurred at IBREM, the Resplandecente Estrela da Manhã Baptist Church, located in Juiz de Fora City, through Comprehensive Sociology, in order to study the socioreligious phenomenon of support Bolsonaro’s government. For the purpose of achieving the objective of this study, we dialogued with theoretic references from Religious Sciences, Social Sciences, Religious Sociology and Philosophy and Theology. Connecting the concepts of religion from Pierre Sanchis, Elisa Rodrigues and Joachim Wach that communicate among themselves as base for comprehending the collected information. Beyond these references, it is the purpose of this work to dialogue with studies about Pentecostal, Baptist and Fundamentalist religions in Brazil. The study is concluded with a comparative analyzes, in a sociology perspective of comprehending the conservative religious discourses that oppose progressive movements - LGBTQIA+, feminism, for example - that promote social rights. The conservative speeches support Jair Bolsonaro and, consequently, renew the contemporary conservative politic through an orthodox language of horror.