[en] The return of most Latin American countries to a constitutional order after the exhaustion of dictatorial regimes in the early 1980s - the so-called third wave of redemocratization described by Samuel Huntington - favored the emergence of a new collective actor in the Latin America?s political-party scene. From the pluralization of the Latin American religious field and having as its distinguish mark the confessionality, the evangelicals politicians was able to transpose the cultural conflict between an identity built in rupture with Roman Catholicism from the private to the public sphere. The recurrent and enduring participation of Popular Protestantism in partisan politics, including representation in Latin American parliaments, has made possible the emergency of a new evangelical political elite existing alongside the old rural oligarchy or the most modern entrepreneurial segment. In this year of 2017, in which the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation movement of the sixteenth century is celebrated, the present study investigates whether Latin American Protestantism has succeeded in transforming power relations between Church and State in the Continent - particularly the patrimonialist political culture based on relationships of personal domination ? patronage, collusion, nepotism, clientelism, populism, etc., or, on the contrary, devoid of a cultural ethos rooted in political liberalism has sought to indoctrinate the public function by imposing on the whole of the Latin American population its private religious morality in order to constitute a multiconfessional State seeking the same advantages granted by the State to the Church.

[pt] O retorno da maioria dos pa?ses latino-americanos numa ordem constitucional ap?s o esgotamento dos regimes ditatoriais no in?cio dos anos 1980 ? a chamada terceira onda de redemocratiza??o descrita por Samuel Huntington - favoreceu a emerg?ncia de um novo ator coletivo na cena pol?tico-partid?ria da Am?rica Latina. A partir da pluraliza??o do campo religioso latino-americano e tendo como marca distintiva a confessionalidade, o pol?tico evang?lico conseguiu transpor o conflito cultural entre uma identidade constru?da em ruptura com o catolicismo romano da esfera privada ? ? esfera p?blica. A participa??o recorrente e duradoura dos protestantismos populares na pol?tica partid?ria, inclusive com representa??o nos Parlamentos latino-americanos, possibilitou a constitui??o de uma nova elite pol?tica evang?lica existindo ao lado da velha oligarquia latifundi?ria ou do mais moderno segmento patronal. Neste ano de 2017 em que se comemora os 500 anos do movimento da Reforma Protestante do s?culo XVI, o presente estudo investiga se o protestantismo latino-americano tem conseguido transformar as rela??es de poder entre Igreja e Estado e particularmente a cultura pol?tica patrimonialista baseada em rela??es de domina??o pessoal ? apadrinhamento, conchavo, nepotismo, clientelismo, populismos, etc, ou, ao contr?rio, destitu?do de um ethos cultural enraizado no liberalismo pol?tico tem procurado doutrinar a fun??o p?blica impondo ao conjunto da popula??o sua moral religiosa privada de maneira a constituir um Estado multiconfessional procurando obter as mesmas vantagens outorgadas pelo Estado ? Igreja.