Public intervention and divine mission: Global dynamics in the construction of evangelical network in politics

MARCOS A. CARBONELLI

Buenos Aires

Congreso; Second ISA Forum of Sociology SOCIAL JUSTICE & DEMOCRATIZATION; 2012

International Sociological Association

In recent decades, the political participation of evangelical actors in Latin America has - diversified, as a consequence of the consideration of the worldly structures as mission spaces and the consolidation of an agenda of public intervention. In this work we will analyze the interference of global dynamics of circulation of people and resources in the praxis of evangelical agencies that participate in the political sphere in contemporary Argentina. We will focus on two lines of investigation. On - one hand, we will analyze the circuits of formation and transnational exchange of leaders and shepherds with partisan trajectory, in order to establish the gravitation of the global contacts in their political performances and the production of speeches referring to the importance of - ethics and - Christian principles in the power spheres. On the other hand, we will approach the morphology and the activities of two international evangelical organizations, oriented to the mission in the space of politics: Youth United for One Mission (JUCUM) and Capitol Ministries. We will determine the central axes of their institutional objectives, and the areas of influence to the interior of local political and religious spaces. In the conclusions of this work, we will compare the political performances of these religious agencies and we will evaluate their incidence in the construction and maintenance of transnational networks; that believe in the construction of a communitarian identity based on the defense of crucial values.