As igrejas evangélicas e a ditadura civil-militar no Brasil: a construção das memórias protestantes na Comissão Nacional da Verdade

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to analyze the behavior of evangelicals in Brazil in a conjuncture that resulted in the civil-military coup in 1964 and during the years that continued until 1985 with the end of the dictatorship. In addition to reflecting on the relationship between evangelicals and dictatorship - whether in the perspective of support for the regime or in resistance to repression - an attempt is also made to analyze the Protestant's memories of the Brazilian civil-military dictatorship. For this, the research has a special focus on the National Commission of Truth (CNV) and the final report produced by this commission on crimes committed during the dictatorship begun in 1964. From the analysis of this text, as well as interviews with evangelicals that were persecuted by the regime and who participated in the work of the CNV, aims to analyze the Protestant memories built on that period in the present time.