PUBLIC POLICIES AND EVANGELICAL WOMEN IN POLITICS

Abstract

Evangelical women have been organizing and expanding their social action beyond the institutional sphere of their churches. With an accessible and technical discourse, these voices echo through media and artistic channels, reaching thousands of followers inside and outside the country, and are increasingly present on the formal political scene. Evangelical Christianity and its occupation of the public sphere are issues in the unfolding of ongoing research, under ethnographic analysis of virtual and face-to-face spaces. We can find different profiles of religious women active in projects, campaigns and public policy training programs, so we seek to understand how civil rights are impacting the political agenda of evangelical women. It is necessary to analyze the debate on feminism as a social project and the development of civil rights for women within the field of Christian theologies. Like so many other choices, these narratives and doctrines observed are not hegemonic, but are echoes of mirrored encounters and possible folds in the construction of national and international social thought.