Religious Transition in Brazil

Samba Struggles: Carnaval Parades, Race and Religious Nationalism in Brazil

“…This religious-national configuration, expressed amongst others in carnaval parades, has come under attack by different parties in the last decades, not in the least by the evangelical and born-again Christian movements that have grown substantially in Brazil in the past thirty years. In this period, Christian evangelical movements have progressively become part of the political landscape of the country (Almeida and Barbosa 2019). In neighborhoods across the land, evangelical pastors have risen as community leaders and during the last three democratic elections of Brazil many evangelical candidates were elected as representatives in municipal, state and federal governments.…”