One dominant narrative of the recent Brazilian crisis elaborated by scholars explains it as the result of a (lost) battle of secularist and progressive forces against religious and conservative ones. This paper challenges such a Manichaean viewpoint, by approaching grassroots politics in the context of critical events from Dilma Rousseff's impeachment to Jair Bolsonaro's victory in the 2018 presidential elections, from an ethnographic perspective. Drawing on fieldwork among Pentecostal families involved in the Landless Workers Movement, this paper argues that looking at moral reciprocity as well as power relations may help us to move beyond dichotomous stereotypes and analytical frameworks such as ‘patronage’ or ‘populism’.

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“相信主，征服土地”：从迪尔玛·罗塞夫到贾伊尔·博尔索纳罗的五旬节派、无地运动和草根政治

学者们阐述的最近巴西危机的一个主要叙述将其解释为世俗主义和进步力量与宗教和保守力量的（失败的）战斗的结果。本文从民族志的角度，通过在从迪尔玛·罗塞夫 (Dilma Rousseff) 被弹劾到贾伊尔·博尔索纳罗 (Jair Bolsonaro) 在 2018 年总统大选中获胜等重大事件的背景下探讨基层政治，从而挑战了这种摩尼教观点。本文借鉴参与无地工人运动的五旬节派家庭的实地调查，认为审视道德互惠和权力关系可能有助于我们超越二分法的刻板印象和分析框架，如“赞助”或“民粹主义”。