The brazilian transnationalization of religious intolerance: the case of the Universal Church in Argentina

• Autor(a) principal: Tadvald, Marcelo
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Antropolítica (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.uff.br/antropolitica/article/view/56270
• topic: Transnacionalização; Intolerância religiosa; Neopentecostalismo; Igreja Universal.; Transnationalization; Religious intolerance; Neo-Pentecostalism; Universal Church.

Several Brazilian religions have been transnationalized around the world since the last century. Along with these institutions, cultural, social and political aspects of their context of origin also circulate. As the foundation of the nation, historic structural and institutional Brazilian racism, represented by a certain type of religious intolerance, also entered the stream of religious transnationalization. In this sense, we hope to infer a more general (“global”) reflection on the ways in which Brazil’s religious intolerance is consistent with other national societies and which strategies can be launched for this purpose, based on the specifics of neo Pentecostalism, through the presence of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in Argentina. Methodologically, this approach is based on the participant observation of church rituals abroad and on the analysis of local media regarding, in terms of this presence. We conclude that the religious intolerance made in Brazil can be consistent with and strengthen prejudices in transnational realities such as Argentina.