The literature on the relationships between religion and social movements, militant engagement, and associativism – both in Brazil and internationally – has identified and analyzed various mechanisms through which religious organizations and agents influence political organization and mobilization processes. These important contributions in the literature generally view religious agency in popular organization and mobilization processes as a source of “resources” that support these processes. Without rejecting or downplaying the value of these contributions, this project seeks to analyze how two central dimensions of political organization and mobilization – identity processes and the moral foundations of action – are (re)configured in contexts where the sacred becomes politicized, and politics becomes sacralized.

Participants (Center)

GPACE/UFRGS: Clarananda da Silva Barreira, Elizabeth Cristiane Mendonça Azevedo, Felipe da Luz Colomé.