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
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 engageme...
| Άλλοι τίτλοι: | Fundamentalistas ou pioneiros? |
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| Τύπος μέσου: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Άρθρο |
| Γλώσσα: | Αγγλικά |
| Έλεγχος διαθεσιμότητας: | HBZ Gateway |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2021
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| Στο/Στη: |
Horizonte
Έτος: 2021, Τόμος: 19, Τεύχος: 58, Σελίδες: 48-73 |
| Άλλες λέξεις-κλειδιά: | B
Engajamento político pentecostal
B Democracia B Fundamentalismo B guerra espiritual B Populismo |
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| Σύνοψη: | 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. |
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| ISSN: | 2175-5841 |
| Περιλαμβάνει: | Enthalten in: Horizonte
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5752/P.2175-5841.2021v19n58p48 |