Malditos os que têm Fome e Sede de Justiça: discursos cristãos neoconservadores e lógicas neoliberais na educação brasileira

Abstract

The emergence of bolsonarismo brought to the center of the Brazilian public scene a process of alliance and articulation between defenders of neoliberalism, Christian neoconservative groups and people aligned with a project to strengthen militarism and return to political authoritarianism. The performance of ecclesiastical, political and media leaders became crucial to build a grammar of meanings and a dynamic of subjective identification for the movement. The purpose of this article is to contribute to the investigation of how this process of articulation developed, in the field of education, through a discursive analysis of actions, public statements and social practices of agents involved in Brazilian educational politics between 2012 and 2022. We inquiry the reality that most Brazilian Christian churches and communities (both Catholics and Evangelicals) still support and are supported by strongly colonial models of faith and religious life and that there is no way to deepen the questioning on the contradictions and limits of these identifications and political projects without facing the theological-political debate as part of the public debate in the field of education.