Abstract: Popular religiosity in Latin America, related to the emancipation of the “God’s people”, contributed fundamentally to the struggles and social movements in the subcontinent, through Christianity and Liberation Theology, in the 1950s and 1960s. However, in the last thirty years, the faith of the “Latin American people” has been mobilized as a way to consolidate the hegemony of a bourgeois faction that is advancing in the conservative world political scenario, as we can see in the Brazilian case. The recognition by the Social Sciences of the power relations that structure religious discourses and knowledge spaces, in our hypothesis, can open horizons of understanding and rebellion that propitiate subversions and the construction of decolonizing and emancipatory theological-political discourses and practices, led by subordinate groups
Keywords:
God’s people; Christianity of Liberation; Conservatism; Decolonization