Articles about "town"

Coloquios interdisciplinarios

Commentary to the colloquium "The Evangelical People: Hegemonic Construction, Minority Disputes and Conservative Reaction" by
  • Joanildo Burity
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Populism and religion in Brazil and Mexico. A brief reflection

  • Alberto Javier Olvera Rivera

Keywords: Brazil, Mexico, Pentecostalism, populism, people.

Se analyze the relationship between populism, religion and politics, both on a theoretical level and in the cases of Brazil and Mexico. It begins with a critique of Joanildo Burity's article on "the Pentecostal people" in Brazil and the relevance of using Laclau's theory of populism to explain this phenomenon. The same arguments are then used to analyze, as a contrast, contemporary Mexican populism, embodied in President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, highlighting its religious background.