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Starting off from Friedrich Nietzsche's well-known expression “beyond good and evil”, the idea of “beyond the social” is proposed together with the establishment of a dialogue between Nietzsche and the philosopher Spinoza. This notion is developed by showing how it can be connected to Nietzsche’s critique of the sociology practiced at the time, stuck to a “herd instinct”. The domain of the “social”, however, is also recognized, and an effort is made to establish ethnography as a possible connection at the disposal of social scientists between these and other domains with the help of the servitude-liberation pair and the idea of expression as proposed by Gilles Deleuze in contrast with that of representation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Concerning Brazil, Sébastien Fath, in his text “From the margins to the mainstream: social challenges of the evangelical rise, a transamerican comparison”, rightly reiterates two predominant tendencies: the Catholic decline and the Evangelical growth. This text presents the main reflections produced by social scientists to explain this reconfiguration of the religious landscape, that has been taking place in the country for some decades. In particular, it analyzes the question about the possibility of Evangelicals to supplant Catholics in Brazil, advances hypotheses about the two lines of force mentioned, highlighting that they result from internal and external situations to each of religious and, finally, the text presents some affinities observed in the evangelical fields of Brazil and the United States. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]