The emergence of religious neoconservatism in the Brazilian political spectrum

The exclusion of the Religious Discrimination modality on dial 100

Abstract

This article aims to reflect on the exclusion of the religious discrimination modality from Dial 100 during the presidency of Jair Messias Bolsonaro. This body, linked to the human rights portfolio, was at the time under the responsibility of Minister Damares Alves. The data released in the years prior to Bolsonaro's administration pointed to a predominance of complaints of violation of the right to religious freedom came from adherents of Afro-Brazilian religions. Thus, through the bibliographic and qualitative research method, this subject was approached under the category of neoconservatism with a religious bias, whose unfolding was due to the political-institutional rupture that marked the presidential administrations from the context of redemocratization to the government of Dilma Rousseff. The process of affirmation of human and constitutional rights that had been engendered, in which Dial 100 would be one of the expressions, was altered by a neoconservative agenda implemented by Temer and Bolsonaro, leaving the Afro-religious segment without a channel for complaints in the face of cases of religious discrimination.