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Reactions to the Pandemic in Latin America and Brazil: Are Religions Essential
Services?
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Bandeira O
; Carranza B
?-/-? 2020[]; 4
(2
): 170-93
PMIDC7575139
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In Brazil, the Covid-19 pandemic is triggering tensions in health management that
provoke, among others, a political crisis led by the federal government,
characterized by negationist postures regarding the seriousness of the disease
and lack of focus on public health policies. There is also an information crisis
enabled by the political strategy of dissemination of disinformation that
disqualifies scientific parameters and the role of the press. In this context,
churches and Christian religious leaders who have risen to power in recent years
play a fundamental role, which allows them to be analyzed from their performance
as a public religion. By decreeing the closure of religious temples, as a
preventive measure for the advance of the disease, evangelical-pentecostal
churches insert into the public debate the defense of the essentiality of
religious service as a fundamental dimension for society, conferring support and
legitimacy to the action of the government. In this sense, this paper argues that
the Brazilian scenario, when compared to other Latin American countries, is an
outlier. Based on ethnographic research within online media and the religious
media circuit, this paper maintains that, nationally, religion takes the lead in
the political and information crisis. At the same time, this study affirms that,
approaching other countries of the region, the churches reinvented mediatized
religious practices, deriving from the social distancing and isolation, and
offered new meanings and religious moralities around the health crisis.
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