“Se alguém não quiser trabalhar, também não coma”: entre a religião e a política - uma análise das posições da frente parlamentar evangélica da câmara dos deputados na reforma trabalhista de 2017

Abstract

This study aims to examine the ideological phenomenon of religion in its relationship with politics within a specific historical context. The goal is to analyze the ideological positions of lawmakers associated with the Evangelical Parliamentary Front regarding the Labor Reform in 2017. The research intends to highlight how these individuals, identified through their religion, understand and position themselves concerning changes in labor legislation, in an economic agenda that contrasts with the typically moralistic religious stance. It starts from the understanding of religion and politics as forms of ideology—ideal orientations through which people interpret and respond to reality, interfering with and regulating everyday conflicts. The research analyzed the ideological outputs that the religious segment of Brazilian institutional politics constructed in the context of profound changes in labor laws, drawing on Social Theory and methodological procedures based on bibliographic research and documentary analysis of the minutes from the special committee and the plenary vote on the Reform, available on the Chamber of Deputies website. The results show that the members of the Front position themselves by reinforcing conservative traits also in the fields of politics and economics, framing their ideological actions on the basis of the Brazilian particularity marked by atrophied capitalism and the logic of intense exploitation and attack on labor rights.