Neopentecostal Fundamentalism and Social Work

threat of a new conservative project?

Abstract

This article is the result of doctoral thesis research whose basic foundations are various statistical surveys that point to the increase in followers of large so-called evangelical denominations, of a conservative nature and adherents of the so-called Prosperity Theology, that is, theology adapted to ideological needs of contemporary capitalism. The increasingly intense insertion of religious leaders from these denominations in political-institutional positions in Brazil, concomitantly with the popularization of Olavo de Carvalho's ideas and the agitation and propaganda's work of ultraliberal organizations and think tanks, was largely responsible for the election of neo-fascist Jair Bolsonaro in the presidency of Brazil, thus reinforcing anti-popular agendas, attacking the secularism of the state, and dismantling public policies to the detriment of Christian philanthropy. Thus, this work aims to contribute to the discussion of the neo-Pentecostal ethos in the composition of contemporary Brazilian conservatism, as well as the threat to the Ethical-Political Project of Social Work.