ABSTRACT

Over the last decade, academic interest in evangelical groups in Latin America has reappeared in light of their growing participation in the political-electoral processes taking place in various countries in the region, generally accompanying political formations that have intensified a shift to the right. In this interest, in their achievements and in their blind spots, it becomes clear to what extent evangelicals pose an intellectual and political challenge for the critical currents in the academic world. In this paper, we propose to investigate the ways in which the relationships between evangelical groups and the political process in Latin America occur. More specifically, what are the relationships between these groups and the authoritarian and conservative shift that occurring in many countries in the region. Starting with a theoretical discussion about evangelism in Latin America, we will attempt to answer this question by considering the case of two different countries. On the one hand, Brazil, in which the participation of evangelicals in politics seems to be inextricably linked with conservative radicalization. On the other Argentina, which appears to be a slightly more open in its historical possibilities, although it is in a process of transformation. Through them we will attempt to demonstrate a single thesis: that within the framework of the political and social processes under way in both countries, the socio-political insertion of evangelicals goes from a relative malleability and contingency in terms of their political destiny to the sedimentation of a series of conditions that transform them either into companions or into catalysts of this authoritarian shift in politics.

摘要

在过去十年中，由于拉丁美洲福音派团体越来越多地参与该地区各国发生的政治选举进程，通常伴随着加剧向右转的政治组织，学术界对拉丁美洲福音派团体的兴趣重新出现。出于这种兴趣、他们的成就和盲点，福音派在多大程度上对学术界的批判潮流构成了智力和政治挑战，这一点变得清晰起来。在本文中，我们建议调查福音派团体与拉丁美洲政治进程之间的关系发生的方式。更具体地说，这些群体与该地区许多国家发生的威权和保守转变之间有什么关系。从关于拉丁美洲传福音的理论讨论开始，我们将尝试通过考虑两个不同国家的案例来回答这个问题。一方面，巴西福音派参与政治似乎与保守派激进化有着千丝万缕的联系。在另一个阿根廷，它的历史可能性似乎稍微更加开放，尽管它​​正处于转型过程中。通过它们，我们将试图证明一个论点：在两国正在进行的政治和社会进程的框架内，