Brazil, land of the past : the ideological roots of the New Right

Cover Table of Contents Acronyms Introduction 1 Blurred Distinctions Conservatism at Large Liberalism Revisited Brazilian Liberal-Conservatism goes Authoritarian Conservatism applied: From the Old Right to the New Right 2 The Monarchic Legacy The promise of Brazil as the Fifth Empire The Brazilian Inversion The Restorative Independence From the Fifth Empire to the “Country of the Future” 3 Re-Christianizing Brazil The “Religious Question” in the Empire The Catholic Restoration in the First Republic The Center Dom Vital – Headquarter of the“Militia of Christ” The Catholic Re-Encounter with the State Integrism meets Integralism The Conservative-Authoritarian (Con)fusion 4 Balking Modernization The Conservative Induction of the Coup in 1964 TFP’s Campaigns to defend the Natural Order Braking Progress 5 God’s Invisible Hand The Liberal Founding Myth Think Tanks on the Move The Thomist Origins of Economic Liberalism Metaphysical Economic Liberalism Evangelicals as Liberal Political Actors 6 The Guru’s Reaction From Intellectual Outsider to Anti-Academic Serving Military Revisionism The Media’s “Stab in the Back” Unrecognized Saviors: Carvalho’s Spiritual Kinship with Plínio Salgado 7 Bolsolavism The Philosophical “Cybersect” Whoever Is Not With Me Is Against Me The Midwife of the New Right Not Breaking the Legs 8 The New Right Today The Catholic Revival Pentecostal Pawns Integralism in Traditionalist Translation Bolsolavism in Arms The Parallel Monarchy Love at Second Sight – Economic Liberalism and Monarchism Conclusion Bibliography Index of Names and Institutions "Brazil, Land of the Past scrutinizes the ideological roots of the so-called New Right in Brazil. The book traces the continuity and resilience of a system of thought based on the idea of a God-given hierarchical order to be defended against any social contract and modernizing relativization. It explains in detail how today a diverse movement - which includes actors ranging from the authoritarian Bolsonaro wing to economic liberals to the military to both Catholic and evangelical religious conservatives - assumes unanimously the ideas of this tradition as underlying premises of their political action. Though not always explicitly, this drives the self-declared "liberal-conservative" but rather anti-modernist reaction which claims to liberate an imaginary authentic "Brazil" from an aberrant "State" - and in so doing intends to preserve inherited privilege in an extremely unequal society."-- Back cover