Religious Leaders in Politics: Rio de Janeiro Under the Mayor-Bishop in the Times of the Pandemic
The authors discuss the phenomenon of religious and political leadership focusing on Bishop Marcelo Crivella from the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (IURD), the current mayor of the city of Rio de Janeiro, in the context of the political involvement of his religious institution and the begin...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2020]
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International journal of Latin American religions
Year: 2020, Volume: 4, Issue: 2, Pages: 360-379 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Crivella, Marcelo 1957-
/ Rio de Janeiro
/ Mayor
/ Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus
/ Religious leader
/ Politics
/ COVID-19 (Disease)
/ Pandemic
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| IxTheo Classification: | CG Christianity and Politics KBR Latin America KDH Christian sects ZA Social sciences ZC Politics in general |
| Further subjects: | B
Leadership
B Liderança B Covid-19 B Pandemia B Religião B Religion B Pandemic B Politics B Política B Rio De Janeiro |
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Presumably Free Access Volltext (Resolving-System) |
| Summary: | The authors discuss the phenomenon of religious and political leadership focusing on Bishop Marcelo Crivella from the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (IURD), the current mayor of the city of Rio de Janeiro, in the context of the political involvement of his religious institution and the beginnings of the COVID-19 pandemic. In the article, selected concepts of leadership are applied in the background of the theories of a religious field, existential security, and the market theory of religion, to analyze the case of the IURD leadership political involvement and bishop/mayor Crivella’s city management before and during the pandemic, in order to show how his office constitutes an important part of the strategies of growth implemented by the IURD charismatic leader Edir Macedo, the founder and the head of this religious institution and, at the same time, Crivella’s uncle. The authors prove how Crivella’s policies mingle the religious and the political according to Macedo’s political alliances at the federal level, in order to strengthen the church and assure its political influence. |
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| ISSN: | 2509-9965 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: International journal of Latin American religions
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s41603-020-00123-1 |