Branquitude e privilégio branco na formação da Igreja Evangélica de Confissão Luterana no Brasil

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https://doi.org/10.7213/2175-1838.16.001.DS07

Abstract

This article will discuss the racial issues and white privilege as structuring concepts of Brazilian society and their implications for the formation of the Evangelical Church of Lutheran Confession in Brazil based on the theoretical-analytical framework of whiteness. In this way, it will shed light on the privileges granted to white people throughout the process of formation of Brazilian society, after the Independence and the Proclamation of the Republic. In this period, white people were seen as token of development and Black and Indigenous people were considered responsible for Brazil's backwardness. Therefore, it is in this scenario of privileges for white people that the first Lutheran communities were founded and marked the colonization of the South Region and Espírito Santo. In this sense, in Brazil, Lutheranism is marked by ethnic belonging and the preservation of Germanness. Therefore, the challenge for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Brazil is to become a multi-ethnic church, denounce racism as a sin and begin a process of anti-racist struggle to truly become a church in Brazil.

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Author Biographies

Günter Bayerl Padilha, EST

Doutorando em teologia sistemática. 

Oneide Bobsin, EST - PPG

Faculdades EST, São Leopoldo, RS, Brasil. Mestre em Ciências da Religião, Doutor em Ciências Sociais - Sociologia da Religião

, docente da Faculdades EST em Ciências da Religião, líder do Grupo de Pesquisa Identidade étnica e Interculturalidade. Blog - oneide-bobsin.com.br, e-mail: [email protected].

Published

2024-05-09

How to Cite

Bayerl Padilha, G., & Bobsin, O. (2024). Branquitude e privilégio branco na formação da Igreja Evangélica de Confissão Luterana no Brasil. Pistis Praxis, 16(1), 102–117. https://doi.org/10.7213/2175-1838.16.001.DS07