Conflitos entre democracia parlamentar e religião reacionária na Câmara Municipal de Fortaleza

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Emanuel Freitas da
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Silveira, Emerson José Sena da
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Plural (São Paulo. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://www.revistas.usp.br/plural/article/view/173125
• topic: Political speech; Political-religious pact; Representation; Discurso político; Pacto político-religioso; Representação

The purpose of this article is to analyze the dynamics of political representation shaped by elements of religious belonging. To this end, the corpus of analysis uses the statements (speeches, posts and images shared on social networks) staged by two city councilors in the city of Fortaleza during the processing of a bill that dealt with the freedom of the chair, between October and November 2019. Starting from qualitative methodologies combined with notions of political field and discourse, with the analysis of images shared on social networks, chosen as paradigmatic by the semantic load of the idea of ​​“war on the enemy”, we intend to understand how it engendered, and if reinforced what we consider to be a “political-religious” pact between the two councilors and the group of their followers, transforming them, in the exercise of parliamentary mandate, from politicians to “representatives of the faith”; its voters into “adherents of the faith”; and its opponents in "enemies of the faith". Thus, reading the text will make it possible to understand one of the most important facets of contemporary Brazilian political conservatism: the legitimation of the Christian religious field and the political legitimation from that field.