Affinities between the 1964 dictatorship and the anti-Catholicism of conservative evangelicals

an expression North American capitalist hegemony

Authors

  • Rodrigo de Sá Netto Arquivo Nacional

Keywords:

Dictatorships, Hegemony, Capitalism, Evangelicals

Abstract

In the early 1950s in the United States, in the form of a psychological and propaganda war, an ideological campaign was formulated, which also foresaw the involvement of churches, to keep Latin America under the North American influence in the face of the Marxist advance. Reverberated in Brazil by conservative evangelicals, these ideas assumed anti-Catholic traits due to the relative popularity of Liberation Theology among the biggest church in Brazil, visible in the friction between catholic portions and the 1964 dictatorship. Analyzing correspondence sent by conservative evangelicals to the dictators of the 1970s and 1980s, this article seeks to demonstrate the success in transferring the ideals propagated by the North American campaign to Brazilian religious sectors, forming a hegemony.

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Author Biography

Rodrigo de Sá Netto, Arquivo Nacional

Doutor em História pela Universidade Federal Fluminense. Servidor de carreira do Arquivo Nacional.

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Published

2023-01-23

How to Cite

Sá Netto, R. de . (2023). Affinities between the 1964 dictatorship and the anti-Catholicism of conservative evangelicals: an expression North American capitalist hegemony. PLURA, Revista De Estudos De Religião PLURA, Journal for the Study of Religion, 13(2), 64–80. Retrieved from https://revistaplura.emnuvens.com.br/plura/article/view/2185

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Seção temática: Religião e a história do tempo presente no Brasil