%0 Figure %A Cowan, Benjamin Arthur %D 2018 %T A hemispheric moral majority: Brazil and the transnational construction of the New Right %U https://scielo.figshare.com/articles/figure/A_hemispheric_moral_majority_Brazil_and_the_transnational_construction_of_the_New_Right/7419308 %R 10.6084/m9.figshare.7419308.v1 %2 https://scielo.figshare.com/ndownloader/files/13734404 %K New Right %K Brazil %K Neoconservatism %K Religious Right %K United States %X

Abstract This essay posits Brazil as one critical locus for gestating the New Right. Often conceived of as a conservative reaction to the U.S. Civil Rights movement, the New Right actually developed transnationally, with determinative participation from Brazilian activists. In this article, I focus on a revelatory subset of those activists, who demonstrate collaboration that (1) linked elite reactionaries in Brazil, the United States, and elsewhere; (2) facilitated the rise of conservative Christianity as populist groundswell; and (3) transformed these two countries into power centers of a Right that adheres to the now-familiar Brazilian moniker “Bible, Bullets, and Beef.”

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