Igrejas evangélicas como máquinas eleitorais no Brasil

Abstract

The article compares the relations of Brazilian religions with the political sphere based on two distinct plans: i) the political conceptions of the faithful, and ii) the electoral activities of churches. The main source of data is a national opinion poll conducted in 2016 by Instituto Datafolha. Here we seek to reconcile the sociological diagnosis of the advance of religious modernity, according to which religion in its traditional forms becomes more and more subject to the bricolage done by the faithful outside institutional regulations, with the confirmation of the growing power of the electoral influence of certain evangelical churches when compared with other religious institutions.