Política e cristianismo na conjuntura brasileira: um olhar a partir do Jornal Gazeta do Povo

Abstract

Based on the understanding that the political-religion dichotomy is a classic theme in the area of Social Sciences (MATA, 2008), this investigation placed the object historically and concentrated efforts on the particularities presented in the context of Brazil. In order to analyze the influence of Christianity in the current Brazilian political scenario, the research resorted to the República editorial, of the Gazeta do Povo newspaper, to verify how the publications highlighted the theme in the period between 2018 and 2021. In view of this , located the media vehicle in the national panorama and presented the relevance of the theme in its scope. Thus, the research required expertise in quantitative and qualitative approaches and was developed from theoretical-methodological assumptions of content analysis (BARDIN, 2011). The techniques used were bibliographic research (STUMPF, 2005), individual interview (GASKELL, 2002) and documental research (OLIVEIRA, 2007). The results showed that Christianity exerts influence in the Brazilian political scenario today and that the association between politics and religion is perceived as legitimate within the scope of the newspaper Gazeta do Povo, being recurrent in news related to the Executive Power