Os pobres, os públicos e o reino de Deus: uma sociologia do engajamento de organizações evangélicas na arena dos direitos sociais

Abstract

ABREU, C. J. P. The poor, the public and the kingdom of God: a sociology of the evangelical organizations' engagement in the social rights arena. 2021. Tese

Evangelical Black Activism in Brazil - Political Liminality and Situational Configuration ,

“…However, the academic inventory of evangelical political activism favors its conservative manifestation (which, for the sake of truth, is hegemonic), and its electoral engagement, putting aside progressive forms of evangelical activism, which are operating on the margins of party struggle, organized in the form of 'social movements'. It is worth noting that evangelicals' engagement in the promotion and safeguarding of social rights, whether by offering services or participating in public policy decision-making processes, has also attracted the attention of social scientists -particularly for their distance from the more clientelistic and conservative forms of engagement of the evangelical right (ABREU, 2021;BURITY, 2006;SCHELIGA, 2010). Even so, progressive evangelical activism, whose vitality comes from the intensity with which it opposes the evangelical right, has not been sufficiently examined in its attributes or conditions of possibilities, which contrasts with the recent context of evangelical politicization: within the national context, the recrudescence of political polarization and radicalization of the evangelical right has stimulated reactions from the left, including the (re)emergence of contradictory publics and forms of evangelical activism that proclaim themselves -and are recognized by their opponents -as 'progressive', such as 'left-wing', 'feminist', 'LGBTQIA+ ', 'anti-fascist', and 'anti-racist' groups (ALENCAR, 2019;CUNHA 2017;CUNHA 2021;MARIANO, 2016;MEDEIROS, 2022).…”