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progressive evangelical activism in the @irmamonicabispo profile

Abstract

Trough a particular case study, we examine the ways in wich the digital social network profile @irmamonicabispo constructs a particular and dissident performance of a progressive Pentecostal activist woman. The main goal was to understand the tensions and ambiguities of a position that is at once religious, in dialogue with Pentecostal worldview, and defends the agendas pursued by evangelical leaders and politicians, with emphasis on that of LGBTQIAPN+ people, in articulation with the political, cultural and social contemporary scenario. We concluded that Sister Monicas’s performance transgresses the hegemonic positioning among religious public figures who operate in the digital world basing her performance on shifts between the religious and the secular, between seriousness and humor. The profile studied reveals heterogeneities in the evangelical segment and in their ways of acting as media agents on the border between the religious and the political.
Keywords: religion and politics; digital communication; religious dissent; communicational performance; progressive Pentecostal