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Teixeira, Pedro; Henriques, Adrian – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2022
In the last decade, demands for greater order and the defense of traditional moral values have grown in Brazil within the scope of what authors have been calling the new Brazilian conservatism. Conservative and neoliberal leaders and religious groups stand out, acting on different fronts in politics and social relations, including education.…
Descriptors: Political Attitudes, Neoliberalism, Foreign Countries, Moral Values
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de Kock, Fleetwood Jerry; de Beer, Zacharias Louw; Wolhuter, Charl C.; Potgieter, Ferdinand Jacobus – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2022
Various internal and external determinants influence an education system. External determinants include language, demographics, geography, technology, politics, and financial and economic trends. Religion is also one of these external determinants that can influence an education system, as well as the education systems of the. The BRICS member…
Descriptors: Religion, Religious Factors, Comparative Education, Foreign Countries
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Alves, Mário A.; Segatto, Catarina I.; Pineda, Andrea M. – British Educational Research Journal, 2021
This article shows the intersections of right-wing conservative discourse and evangelical religious proselytism in shaping right-wing populist discourse in Brazil and its implications on the education policy in the last decade. Since re-democratisation in the 1980s, the policy path sought to guarantee progressive and inclusive public education,…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Educational Change, Case Studies, Political Influences
Lopes, Cesar Marques – ProQuest LLC, 2013
With a focus on Brazilian theological seminaries that self-identify as evangelical and which emphasize teaching, learning, and doing a contextually Latin American theology, this research inquiries into related theoretical fields in order to establish a framework from which these schools may further develop educational approaches more adequate to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Theological Education, Curriculum Development, Critical Theory
Jeynes, William, Ed. – John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2018
"The Wiley Handbook of Christianity and Education" provides a resource for students and scholars interested in the most important issues, trends, and developments in the relationship between Christianity and education. It offers a historical understanding of these two intertwined subjects with a view to creating a context for the myriad…
Descriptors: Religion, Religious Education, Christianity, Educational Trends
Hedrick, B. C. – Grambling College Liberal Arts Bulletin, 1967
This paper treats the Afro-Brazilian fetish cults found throughout Brazil and examines the syncretism of these cults with Catholicism. The religious practices of the "macumbas" (deities of the Afro-Brazilian cults), ritual music, and the ethnicity of the Negroes from both southern and northern Brazil are discussed. Frequently, excerpts…
Descriptors: African Culture, Black Studies, Christianity, Cultural Context