The crisis of brazilian democracy and the role of political and religious extremism

Abstract

The article seeks to discuss how the emergence of the extreme right united with religious fundamentalist movements in Brazil feeds and takes advantage of the democratic crisis, at the same time that it creates, and triggers mechanisms to dispute the public space to the extent that it mobilizes its moral precepts as universals, making politics a means of legitimizing its ideas and Christian doctrine, establishing an ordering of the social sphere through a specific type of classification, limiting democracy to an instrument for maintaining power relations.