ELEIÇÕES MUNICIPAIS 2016: RELIGIÃO E POLÍTICA NAS CAPITAIS BRASILEIRAS.

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]