Representações sobre religião e política na Revista Lições Bíblicas da Igreja Assembleia de Deus no ano de 1998

Abstract

This study aims to analyze representations about State and Politics, presented in the magazine “Lições Bíblicas”, in the second half of the 1990s, a journal aimed to young audiences used in the Sunday lessons of the Bible School at the Assemblies of God Church (AG). The interest in this topic of study is justified by the fact that, after the democratic opening in the 1980s, the presence of politicians elected to represent religious segments has been increasing, especially in the case of evangelicals that currently form what is commonly called "bancada evangélica". Having as theoretical and methodological support the notion of representation brought by Roger Chartier, and a group of authors specialized in press history, we seek to understand how the “Lições Bíblicas” magazine editors articulated the discussion on a topic that was considered very controversial in a church that for many decades maintained a negative position in relation to politics, but after the democratic period, opened by the Citizen Constitution, systematically sought to influence the political debate through its representatives in different power spheres.