“O culto continua”: a instrumentalização da política partidária pelas lideranças transpentecostais nas eleições presidenciais de 2018

Abstract

This research's main objective is to highlight and analyze the instrumentalization of the institutional faith of Trans-Pentecostal2 leaders in the 2018 presidential elections. According to the author Emerson Roberto (2015), phenomena considered exclusively political can be identified in the religious field and vice versa. For this reason, in this work, our first intention is to outline how these relationships occur and their consequences for society. Next, we provide a historical overview of Transpentecostalism, its characteristics and its entry into politics, influencing and shaping it. Finally, we investigated some of the main media outlets of some Trans-Pentecostal leaders with the aim of proving our hypothesis: that there was an instrumentalization of faith in favor of Jair Bolsonaro and how evangelicals have such influence to the point of being decisive in this election. To achieve the research objective, the work has a theoretical basis in the main discussions about the relationship between political sociology and religion and Transpentecostalism. The method used in this research is qualitative and was based on analysis in some of the main media of communication by leaders such as Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, statements at public events and lives. Our research aimed to explain how religion, especially evangelical Christianity, played a decisive role in the outcome of the 2018 presidential elections.