THE REVOLT OF THE BASTARDS: from Pentecostalism to “Bolsonarismo”

Abstract

The article intends to offer a theoretical-methodological contribution to the debate on authoritarian neoliberalism, from the perspective of the margins, more specifically, of the Pentecostal movement. By tracing a genealogy of the expansion of Pentecostalism during the three decades of the New Republic, the text argues that some dimensions present in the Brazilian authoritarian turn were gestated in Pentecostal agencies, such as the war diagram, the refusal of humiliation, the anti-authority device and the grammar of entrepreneurship. The central thesis is that Pentecostalism and “Bolsonarismo” can be described as a revolt of the “bastards”. From the margins to the State, it is intended to analyze how a contestation of peripheral subjects who occupy “ambiguous” positions within the religious field has a connection with a conservative insurrection, which aims to reach institutional positions in the legislative, executive and judiciary powers, from subjects that occupied heterodox positions in various fields of action, such as legal, political, military, academic.