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During the 2018 election campaign and throughout his term, President Jair Bolsonaro used the word secularism several times, recognizing it is a legal rule of Brazilian society. However, the use of the word secularism was always accompanied by the word Christianity, showing that in the president's logic, the last word reveals itself to be preeminent in relation to the first word. This text announces clues to show that the Christian reference evidenced by the president consists of conservative Christianity and, particularly, the conservative evangélical segment, with which he maintains strong political and religious alignment. Therefore, it is argued here, on the one hand, that Bolsonaro navigates in the waters of recognition of the constitutional principle of regulation of the religious, which provides for the dissociation of the political field and the religious field without, however, preventing approximations and even imbrications between them; but, on the other hand, that Bolsonaro, not without interests, introduces important reconfigurations in the historic Brazilian secularism, such as the exaggeration in appealing to the transcendent; the exacerbation of the narrowing of the relationship between State and religion; and the effort to deepen its alliance with the conservative evangelical segment, which is why it can be said that we are currently living in times of "Bolsonaro-style secularism". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

On two occasions, in 2003 and in 2015, two evangelical deputies with a conservative Pentecostal profile of the Legislative Assembly of Rio Grande do Sul presented and tried to approve bills that aimed at banning the sacrifice of animals in African-based religions (Batuque, Quimbanda, Linha Cruzada). Such iniciatives gave rise to strong political mobilization on the part of the practitioners of Afro-Brazilian religions. Inspired by the text by Ana Paula Mendes de Miranda, I analyze the events based on two categories employed by her, namely, "Christofascist politics", undertaken by evangelical deputies, and "terreiros politics", carried out by the practitioners of Afro-Brazilian religions and by members of the black movements who supported the cause. The political mobilizations "from the terreiros" were decisive not only to avoit the approval of the mentioned bills, but also, supported by a portion of the Gaucho parliament and judiciary, were very important for the subject of animal sacrifice in religious rituals reach the Federal Supreme Court, which unanimously decided on its constitutionality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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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]

Este artigo analisa a viagem do renomado Pai-de-santo Cleon de Oxalá, de Porto Alegre, para a província africana de Cabinda, ocorrida em junho de 2012. Era, para ele, a realização do sonho de conhecer a terra dos seus ancestrais religiosos e o cumprimento da missão de trazer para a sua "casa" uma porção de terra de Cabinda, para selar simbolicamente o vínculo entre os dois espaços sagrados. Porém, a realização do sonho foi acompanhada do desencanto em relação à situação da religião "tradicional" cabinda em solo africano, o que conduziu Pai Cleon a concluir que a verdadeira religião dos seus antepassados não está mais na África, mas no Rio Grande do Sul. This article analyes the journey of the renowned Pai-de-santo Cleon de Oxalá, from Porto Alegre to the African province of Cabinda, which took place in June 2012. For him, it was the dream of knowing the land of his religious ancestors and the accomplishment of the mission of bringing to his "home" a portion of land from Cabinda, to symbolically seal the bond between the two sacred spaces. However, the fulfillment of the dream was accompanied by disenchantment with the situation of the "traditional" Cabinda religion on African soil, which led Pai Cleon to conclude that the true religion of his ancestors is no longer in Africa but in Rio Grande do Sul. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to examine the transnationalization of Brazilian evangelical churches that many decades ago accomplish the "reverse mission" to Europe. We analyze the meanings linked to this process, we suggest a typology of religious transnationalization composed of four different models, and finally we explain the dynamics and practices undertaken by these Brazilian churches to overcome cultural differences and to adapt to the European cultures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present work aims to contribute to a national perspective on the problematic of interrelationship between religion and politics field during the electoral process in 2016 in Brazilian capitals. The text has a comparative expository character seeking to privilege the data collected in the field followed by a brief analysis. In this way, we seek to delimit some specificities of this process in each region, state and city analyzed, as well as to explain the presence of the religious as an element of mobilization and constitution of an electoral platform, both in the competition for executive positions as for the municipal city legislatures. In this analysis, we considered all candidates who, in some way, triggered their religious belonging, directly or indirectly, which we call political religious, as well as candidates for the executive who sought support from the religious segments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article aims to examine the transnationalization of four Brazilian evangelical churches in Portugal, which are: Universal Church of the Kingdon of God, Igreja universal do Reino de Deus, Baptist Brasa Church, Batista BRASA, The Light for the People, Luz Para os Povos, (International Christian Mission) and Salt of the Earth, Sal da Terra. In the first part of the article is analyzed the flows and movements that involve these churches, which allows us to suggest a typology of religious transnationalization composed by four different models. The second part deals with the dynamics and practices undertaken by these churches to overcome cultural differences and to adapt to the local Portuguese culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper evaluates the relationship between religion and politics in the 2014 elections in Rio Grande do Sul. More specifically, it analyzes the approaches of candidates for the state executive toward religious segments, particularly evangelicals. It also analyzes the candidacy from individuals who triggered their religious ties in the dispute for vacancies in the chamber of deputies and the state legislature. Finally, it holds a brief comparative analysis of the 2010 and 2014 elections, regarding to the overlapping of religion and politics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study approaches the articulation between religion and politics during the 2012 municipal elections in the city of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul. It begins by remarking the movement of candidates running to the city hall towards religious organizations, in search for endorsement that could translate into votes. It then exposes the array of candidates belonging or linked to religious institutions who make up the local religious scene's pluralism, and their attempts to gain a seat in Porto Alegre's Municipal Chamber. The theoretical perspective that undergirds this analysis is centered on an argument for the proximity between what we define as the religious and the political as equal spheres in the constitution of Brazilian civil society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]