Configurations of public religion: Afro-religious, Catholic and Evangelical candidates in the 2022 elections to the Legislative Assembly of Parana

In this text, we seek to inventory the electoral campaigns of Afro-religious, Catholic and Evangelical candidates for the Legislative Assembly of Paran & aacute; (ALEP) in 2022, analyzing how these agents built their strategies by mobilizing sacred elements in the structuring and legitimization of their candidacies. There are 138 politicians who used these resources during the election period, collected from materials published on their Facebook and Instagram profiles and pages, such as e-flyers, videos, photos and lives, interpreted in a quantitative-qualitative expository approach. We identified the intensive use of lexical, symbolic and performative signs in the construction of political identities, with similarities and differences between the style and form of the presence of religious elements in the three groups of candidates. The 2022 elections in Paran & aacute; show constant and intense dialogues between the religious and political fields.