A NOVA REFORMA APOSTÓLICA: Um estudo acerca dos novos discursos e práticas políticas observadas entre os Evangélicos no Brasil (1960 – 2015).

Abstract

This research is organized under two transversal axis: the first one deals with the discussion about the place of religion in the current phase of modernity. The potentialities of Protestantism as a religion that emerges at the dawn of modernity can give us some clues about this place occupied by religion in the current context, in which it’s called about a possible regression of the characteristic process of secularization of Western Modernity, according to the Weberian tradition. Stricto sensu, the research refers to the Brazilian religious field at the dawn of twenty-first century, which has become multi-faceted, plural and contradictory, marked by increased participation of evangelicals in the politics, which have assumed, in general, conservative and antidemocratic positions. The New Apostolic Reformation is a charismatic movement with a well-defined project of political domination, and it has arrived in Brazil in this context, and has gained adherents of various evangelical denominations. We intend to understand initially what pre-existing factors in the Brazilian religious field propitiated the development of this movement here; in order to do that, it’s necessary to historicize its presence in terms of permanence and ruptures with the evangelical field; Finally, we intend to analyze some of the impacts that these new discourses and practices have generated in the Brazilian public space, as well as in the evangelical field itself, regarding new elements that are being engendered to the political culture of this group and to a possible redefinition of its political ethos. We believe that the study of this movement reveals both about the place of religion in the contemporaneity and about the new forms of being evangelical in Brazil.