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Evangelicals and politics in Brazil: the relevance of religious change in Latin America
Die Evangelikalen und die Politik in Brasilien: die Relevanz des religiösen Wandels in Lateinamerika
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Körperschaftlicher Herausgeber
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik -SWP- Deutsches Institut für Internationale Politik und Sicherheit
Abstract Since the 1970s a religious change has occurred in Latin America. As a proportion of the population, Catholics have greatly diminished, and Evangelicals rapidly increased. These developments are causally linked. In the course of this demographic transformation, the Catholic Church has lost its speci... mehr
Since the 1970s a religious change has occurred in Latin America. As a proportion of the population, Catholics have greatly diminished, and Evangelicals rapidly increased. These developments are causally linked. In the course of this demographic transformation, the Catholic Church has lost its special position in society and its privileged access to politics. It has been replaced by a large number of diverse and autonomous Evangelical churches, above all the Pentecostal and neo-Pentecostal. The substantial social weight of the Evangelical churches is connected, inter alia, to their importance as “problem solvers” in precarious sections of society. Faith communities are increasingly extending this commitment into the political sphere. The increasing social relevance and political power of the Evangelical churches has come to prominence in a particularly striking way in Brazil. Since 1 January 2019, Jair Messias Bolsonaro, a former soldier who was baptised in the Jordan by an Evangelical pastor, has been heading its government. (Autorenreferat)... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Brasilien; Innenpolitik; politische Situation; politische Entwicklung; politischer Wandel; sozialer Wandel; Religion; nationale Identität; katholische Kirche; Protestantismus; Lateinamerika
Klassifikation
Religionssoziologie
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Freie Schlagwörter
Evangelikale; Implikation; Wechselbeziehungen Religion und Politik; Religionsbezogene Ideologie; Bolsonaro, Jair
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2020
Erscheinungsort
Berlin
Seitenangabe
31 S.
Schriftenreihe
SWP Research Paper, 1/2020
DOI
https://doi.org/10.18449/2020RP01
ISSN
1863-1053
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet
Lizenz
Deposit Licence - Keine Weiterverbreitung, keine Bearbeitung