Master's degree in Anthropology and PhD candidate in Political Science at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil. She is a researcher in the "Public Opinion, Political Marketing, and Electoral Behavior" group at UFMG.
Bolsonaro and Chávez, from opposite ideological poles, share the same political resource: the use of religious symbols and narratives to construct themselves as messianic leaders and legitimize power projects that strain liberal democracy.
Dominion Theology is pushing a politico-religious offensive in Brazil: occupying institutions, imposing biblical morality and waging "culture wars" against LGBTQIA+ rights, abortion and gender-sensitive education. With Bolsonaro and figures like Nikolas Ferreira, conservative Pentecostalism is gaining power, stressing the Judiciary and eroding secularism and democracy.
