Exoticizing Terrorism: Religious Bias and the Unchecked Threat of Evangelical Christian Extremism in Brazil

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Boaz, Danielle N.

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2021

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23

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Since the start of the 21st century, Brazil has been experiencing a rapidly escalating problem with Evangelical Christian extremism. Persons referring to themselves as “armies of Jesus” have been assaulting devotees of Afro-Brazilian religions—stealing and destroying their sacred artifacts, as well as burning and bombing their places of worship. Although Brazil recently passed some of the most expansive anti-terrorism legislation in the world, it has failed to hold Evangelical extremists accountable under these laws. This article explores how Brazil’s non-recognition of Evangelical extremism is part of a global trend to “exoticize” terrorists as a foreign, unfamiliar threat.|Keywords: terrorism, extremism, Brazil, Evangelical, Candomblé

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Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center, Creighton University

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