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Resumo As relações entre evangélicos e política no Brasil estão marcadas, desde seu auge nos anos 80 do século XX, por explícito interesse desse setor religioso em impor à sociedade uma moral religiosa. O presente artigo analisa essa... more
Resumo As relações entre evangélicos e política no Brasil estão marcadas, desde seu auge nos anos 80 do século XX, por explícito interesse desse setor religioso em impor à sociedade uma moral religiosa. O presente artigo analisa essa questão aproveitando o conceito de "patrimonialismo". Argumenta-se que o amplo setor evangélico que apoiou a candidatura de Jair Bolsonaro entende ter chegado a hora dos evangélicos controlarem os destinos do país. Apoia-se em registros oficiais e documentação pública sobre a prática política dos evangélicos e foca sua atenção nas eleições de 2018. Analisa a aliança política entre evangélicos conservadores e o projeto eleitoral direitista que saiu vitorioso nas eleições. Constata aspectos inéditos das relações entre religião e política no Brasil, com protagonismo especial das maiores igrejas pentecostais. Palavras-chave: Patrimonialismo, Evangélicos, Brasil, Eleições, Pentecostalismo Pentecostal "patrimonialism": a new level of relationship between religion and policy in recent Brazil Abstract Relations between evangelicals and politics in Brazil have been marked, since their emergence in the 1980s, by the explicit interest of this religious sector to impose a religious morality on society. This article analyzes this issue taking advantage of the concept of "patrimonialism". It is argued that the broad evangelical sector that supported Jair Bolsonaro's candidacy understands that the time has come for evangelicals to control the country's destiny. It relies on official records and public documentation on the political practice of evangelicals and focuses its attention on the 2018 elections. It analyzes the political alliance between conservative evangelicals and the right-wing electoral project that emerged victorious in the elections. It notes unprecedented aspects of the relationship between religion and politics in Brazil, with special participation of the largest Pentecostal churches. Patrimonialismo pentecostal: nuevo nivel de las relaciones entre religión y política en el Brasil reciente Resumen Las relaciones entre evangélicos y política en Brasil están marcadas, desde su auge en los años 80 del siglo XX, por un explícito interés de ese sector religioso en imponer a la sociedad una moral religiosa. El presente artículo analiza esa cuestión aprovechando
In democratic elections, voting usually comprises two fundamental empowering aspects: electors vote for candidates because they agree with their projects and have a positive assessment of their background or party, and/or electors vote... more
In democratic elections, voting usually comprises two fundamental empowering aspects: electors vote for candidates because they agree with their projects and have a positive assessment of their background or party, and/or electors vote for candidates because of their charisma, honesty, and other values transmitted by candidates’ own image (MUTZ, 2009). The dissemination of fake news affects both these motivations of a democratic vote. On one hand, the rational choice of projects and the assessment of candidates’ background can be impaired by the overflow of possibly untrue information. On the other hand, untrue facts misrepresent the aforementioned features of candidates – either for or against their image. Besides, disseminating untrue information also reinforces ideological biases in each voter, because the evidence presented confirms ideas, values, and notions inherent to his/her points of view. 1 However, the fake news phenomenon cannot be fully understood based only on the false information element: the mode of dissemination is fundamental to determine the electoral impact. For that reason, social bots and real people share fake news in social media and communication applications such WhatsApp or even e-mail services. Social bots, when pretending to be real people sharing news and presenting opinions, have become a tool to generate a critic mass of sharing news in several online communication vehicles; consequently, they made some facts, either true or not, part of the mainstream narrative. Thus, what makes the current fake news phenomenon different from older forms of disinformation is precisely its massive scale and online circulation.