Le nouvel intégrisme : les conservateurs catholiques et la Nouvelle Droite brésilienne

Abstract

The so-called New Right in Brazil is not as new as it might appear. Among its main protagonists are groups with a conservative Catholic orientation which preserve the legacy of the TFP – Sociedade Brasileira de Defesa da Tradição, Família e Propriedade [Brazilian Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property] and earlier associations such as the Dom Vital Center from the 1920s. Although discreetly, the protagonists of this movement have returned to act politically in the last decade and exert influence on the Bolsonaro government. Unlike other actors of the New Right, such as the Military and the (Neo)Pentecostal Churches, they have not yet received academic attention. Based on recent fieldwork, this article analyzes the historical ideological formation of conservative Catholics and their contemporary political action through the Plínio Corrêa de Oliveira Institute, the Dom Bosco Center, and the League of Christ the King, as well as the film production company Brasil Paralelo.

Keywords

• Brazil
• new right
• conservatism
• catholic Church
• integrism
• 20th-21st centuries