Evangélicos fundamentalistas e política: uma análise da conjuntura brasileira (2018-2019) = Fundamentalist evangelicals and politics: ananalysis of the Brazilian situation (2018-2019)

This article acknowledges that fundamentalism has never been such a popular topic in Brazil as it is today; and that the wide use of the concept is rarely associated with the spectrum of Protestantism defined by the literal hermeneutics of the Scriptures, as in the onset of the fundamentalist moveme...

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Published in:Horizonte
Subtitles:Fundamentalist evangelicals and politics: ananalysis of the Brazilian situation (2018-2019)
Main Author: Campos, Breno Martins (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:Portuguese
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Published: [publisher not identified] [2020]
In: Horizonte
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Brazil / Evangelical movement / Politics / Political influencing / History 2018-2019
IxTheo Classification:CG Christianity and Politics
KBR Latin America
KDG Free church
ZC Politics in general
Further subjects:B Elections
B Sionismo Cristão
B Brasil
B Christian Zionism
B Fundamentalist evangelicals
B Brazil
B Eleições
B Evangélicos fundamentalistas
B Bolsonaro
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Summary:This article acknowledges that fundamentalism has never been such a popular topic in Brazil as it is today; and that the wide use of the concept is rarely associated with the spectrum of Protestantism defined by the literal hermeneutics of the Scriptures, as in the onset of the fundamentalist movement. Roughly, in contemporary Brazil the adjective fundamentalist qualifies one that is a conservative or reactionary evangelical, usually Pentecostal, and with some presence in the media and politics. Thus, actions of fundamentalist evangelicals in the Brazilian public and political space must be understood by the Religious Studies (in dialogue with Theology), since democracy is at stake when particular religious interests are transformed into matters of State and governmental actions. Therefore, this article aims at assessing how the qualification “fundamentalist” associated with the name “evangelical” contributes to understand Jair Bolsonaro’s election to the Presidency of the Republic in 2018, with a focus on his promise of changing the Brazilian embassy in Israel of Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. The conclusions on the relationship of the so-called Christian Zionism (as a fundamentalist feature of evangelical sectors) with the election of Bolsonaro result from bibliographical and documentary research, whose empirical data of were obtained from the Folha de S. Paulo newspaper.
Este artigo reconhece que nunca se falou tanto em fundamentalismo em nosso país como agora; e que o uso ampliado do conceito poucas vezes vem associado ao espectro do protestantismo definido pela hermenêutica literal das Escrituras, como nos primórdios do movimento fundamentalista. No Brasil contemporâneo, grosso modo, fundamentalista qualifica o evangélico conservador ou reacionário, quase sempre pentecostal, e com inserção na mídia e na política. Assim, é urgente que a ação de evangélicos fundamentalistasno espaço público-político brasileiro seja compreendida pelas Ciências da Religião (em diálogo com a Teologia), uma vez que coloca em questão a democracia ao transformar interesses religiosos particulares em questões de Estado e ações de governo. O objetivo deste artigo, portanto, é avaliar como o qualificativo fundamentalista associado ao nome evangélico contribui para a compreensão da eleição de Jair Bolsonaro à presidência da República em 2018, adotando como recorte o caso da promessa de mudança da embaixada brasileira em Israel de Tel Aviv para Jerusalém. As conclusões alcançadas acerca das imbricações do assim chamado sionismo cristão (como um traço fundamentalista de setores evangélicos) com a eleição de Bolsonaro resultam de pesquisa bibliográfica e documental, cujos dados empíricos foram retirados do jornal Folha de S. Paulo.
ISSN:2175-5841
Contains:Enthalten in: Horizonte
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.5752/P.2175-5841.2020v18n57p1162