Abstract: This article analyses how the field of African religions evokes racial discourse as a public-political narrative in response to acts of religious intolerance, highlighting the period of the 2020 municipal elections in the region of São Gonçalo (RJ). As a counterpoint to this process, we will also examine how racial discourse is employed by evangelical groups in the daily life of their churches, articulated with their expansionist and missionary action in general and in São Gonçalo. As theoretical support for undertaking the analysis of the relations between raciality, identity and politics, we base ourselves on the concept of intersectionalities, a category which alludes to the multiplicity of differentiations.
Keywords:
racial ethnic relations; religious intolerance; municipal elections; municipality of São Gonçalo