Neoconservadorismo, ativismo antigênero e juridificação da moralidade: uma análise de projetos de lei sobre cristofobia no Brasil

Abstract

This research aims to understand neoconservatism in Brazil through the articulations mobilized through bills that aim to recognize and criminalize Christophobia. The guiding hypothesis is that this articulation is made through processes of unification and religious alliances, the juridification of morality, and reactive anti-gender policies. Given that, in the case of Brazilian society, Christophobia is not defined solely by the religious “persecution” of Christians, but is also understood as a reaction to the changes that have occurred in the field of social and cultural diversity in recent years in the country. With the advancement of the feminist and LGBTQIA+ movements from the 1960s and 1970s onwards, complaints have emerged from certain conservative politicians and religious figures, inserted in a field of moral disputes or “culture wars,” against the achievements of these movements and their struggles for social and political recognition. Thus, identifying neoconservative activism and related phenomena, such as “Brazilian Christophobia,” brings to light aspects that denounce new forms of political language, new projects of governance, new political and religious actors, and new attempts to defend the current order. Therefore, through a qualitative documentary analysis, a mapping of the bills linked to this phenomenon at the municipal, state, and federal levels was developed. This investigation made it possible to identify how the foundations of neoconservatism were mobilized through reactive policies, defined as strategies that aim to preserve hegemonic power over moral agendas linked mainly to gender and sexuality issues.