Participation of Pan-Protestantism in the Public Arena in Brazil. Introductory Remarks

• Authors: Carlos Caldas

Abstracts

EN

Brazil, the world’s fifth population and the sixth wealthiest nation (in 2014), is a society where religion still has a great influence. In recent decades, the growth of non-Catholic Christianity (Mainline Protestants, Evangelicals, Charismatics, Pentecostals and neo-Pentecostal) has been observed by many students of the worldwide religious phenomenon, such as Philip Jenkins. With such an enormous growth in numbers, the participation of these groups in Brazil’s public life is unavoidable. This paper attempts to outline an introduction to this broad topic to a wider external public, and will try to answer such questions as: what are the major concerns of the aforementioned religious groups, as far as social-political questions are concerned? How did their leaders operate during the period of the last Presidential polls? The main hypothesis is that the theological “credenda” of the group guides its social and political “agenda” in Brazilian society.

• Publisher: Ewangelikalna Wyższa Szkoła Teologiczna we Wrocławiu
• Journal: Theologica Wratislaviensia
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 11 Dietrich Bonhoeffer na 500 lat Reformacji
• Pages: 147-160

Dates

published

2016

Contributors

author

Carlos Caldas

• Jesuit School of Philosophy and Theology in Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Identifiers

Biblioteka Nauki

2054938