Eleições presidenciais (2010-2018) e ativismo religioso: a participação dos evangélicos na esfera pública brasileira

Abstract

The intense evangelical participation (especially the Pentecostal and Neo-Pentecostal branches) in Brazilian politics in the last decade has (re)put in evidence the straits of the relations between religion and politics, being the last presidential elections (2010 -2018) significant in this sense, since the weight of religion and issues of moral nature on the public sphere have revealed themselves in a forceful way. Starting from such reality, the current research seeks to analyze, within the framework of the relations between religion and politics in Brazil, the participation of evangelicals in the presidential elections from 2010 to 2018, as relevant political actors in the public sphere. The study methodology seeks to combine the theoretical field with the practical field of investigation. In this way, the thesis makes use of a referential body capable of contemplating relevant authors in the field of religion and politics (Oro (2006;), Machado (2012ab), Mariano (2014), Burity (2001; 2006), among others), in the studies about evangelicals (Mafra (2001), Mariano (2014), Camurça (2013), Campos (2008)), in the questionings about conservatism (Bobbio (1995), Almeida (2017a), Lacerda (2019), etc. ) and in reflections on democracy (Miguel (2017) and Biroli (2020)) and public sphere (Habermas (2014; 1997)). Concretely, it was sought to access the knowledge and information inscribed in journalistic sources, in bibliographic records, and research data. What corresponds to the realization of the collection and analysis of data regarding the elections indicated: information in newspapers of the country, especially, the Folha de S. Paulo and O Estado de S. Paulo, but also researches in websites of less importance (IHU, IstoÉ, etc. ), voting intention surveys (Datafolha and IBOPE), institutional information (IBGE, TSE, DIAP) and other statistics found in bibliographic sources (Oro (2006), Oro and Mariano (2010), Mariano and Gerardi (2019; 2020), Cervellini, Giani and Pavanelli (2011), Bohn (2004), Nicolau (2020), among others).