RT Article
T1 Fundamentalists or pioneers?: On the ambivalence of Pentecostal Political Engagement within the Democratic Game = Fundamentalistas ou pioneiros? : A ambivalência do engajamento político pentecostal no jogo democrático
JF Horizonte
VO 19
IS 58
SP 48
OP 73
A1 Bedin Fontana, Leandro Luis 1979-
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1773171690
AB Considering the challenges posed by populism and religiously motivated political engagement to liberal democracies, the present study sets out to examine, specifically, the role played by Pentecostal actors in the conflictive rearrangement of the democratic game in Brazil and worldwide. The engagement of Pentecostals in Brazil’s 2018 general election represented a milestone in that regard and constitutes, thus, the main focus of the present investigation. Given the novelty and nature of both phenomena in question, viz. Pentecostal political engagement and the crisis of democracy, the analysis is carried out, methodologically, from a descriptive, theoretical vantage point, rather than a normative one. To that purpose, the study builds on Manow’s recent work on the current crisis of democracy so as to shed new light on this issue and engages with scholarly studies of Pentecostal political engagement in Brazil and Nigeria alike, where similar developments may be observed, thereby placing this predicament in a global perspective. The role played by Pentecostals can best be described as ambivalent, as, on the one hand, they contributed largely to democratizing contemporary democracies and, on the other, they played a significant part in undermining the very foundations of liberal democracies.
K1 Democracia
K1 Engajamento político pentecostal
K1 Fundamentalismo
K1 guerra espiritual
K1 Populismo
DO 10.5752/P.2175-5841.2021v19n58p48