Abstract:
In recent decades, in each new election campaign, be they by majority or proportional, the
faithful of the Evangelical churches have become key elements in the election disputes, due to
the continuous decline in the number of Catholics and the correlated diffusion of Evangelical
churches, namely the Pentecostal and Neo-Pentecostal churches. This study analyzes the
participation of the Evangelical religion in the Brazilian electoral process, especially in the
presidential elections of 2010 and 2014, so as to discover what the ethical-legal limits of the
influence of this religious dimension in the Brazilian electoral process are. The ethical limits
were evaluated based on the Protestant ethics, and the legal limits based on the Brazilian
electoral legislation, discussing about the possibility of the participation of the Evangelical
religion in the electoral campaigns being a mechanism of exercising power and/or persuasion
with the pillar being religious moral values.
