Articles about "peripheries"

Coloquios interdisciplinarios

Commentary to the colloquium "The Evangelical People: Hegemonic Construction, Minority Disputes and Conservative Reaction" by
  • Joanildo Burity
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Comments on the text by Joanildo Burity: challenges for current times

  • Patricia birman

Keywords: conservatism, gender differentiation, evangelicals, militarization, peripheries.

Whe aim of the text is to promote a dialogue with the article "The evangelical people: hegemonic construction, minority disputes and conservative reaction", by Joanildo Burity. By positively valuing the hypotheses of the article, related to the evangelical growth in Brazil, it seeks to dialogue with them from an anthropological perspective. To this end, it explores issues related to the diffusion of evangelical culture, its heterogeneity and its affinities with peripheral cultural practices. It invites the reader to consider the importance of the militarism that develops in Brazilian urban centers as partially responsible for the mediating role of evangelical churches and, consequently, as important for their hegemonic construction. It also suggests that reflecting on gender relations may contribute to a better understanding of the political forms now adopted by the populist project to build the country as an evangelical nation.