What is it about?
The growth of Brazilian Neopentecostal movements challenges the historical stability of relationhs between religion and politics. This article examines the impact of the evangelical strategies of action on secular public policies.
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Why is it important?
The complex contemporary connections between the religious and the political led to the location of pluralism no longer in terms of the secularisation process of religious phenomenon , but above all, in terms of the political-juridical regulation of secularism.
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I hope this article helps to respond to the political problem of conviviality in a context characterized by inequality and diversity. The processes for producing legitimacy and demanding equal rights to religious differences and minorities are characteristically divisive and conflictive. The ideas such as “tolerance” and “accommodation of differences” prove to be insufficient to hinder the radical polarization brought by diversification processes.
Paula Montero
Universidade de São Paulo
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This page is a summary of: Religious Pluralism and Its Impacts on the Configuration of Secularism in Brazil, Secular Studies, April 2020, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/25892525-bja10001.
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