Três deuses entre a moral e o poder: uma análise construtivista sobre a religião no governo de Narendra Modi

Abstract

This work aims to discuss the relationship between economic and social development based on religious cleavage and relevant socioeconomic variables. The central objective of the research is to understand how Hinduism influences, through its system of social norms and practices, the maintenance of social inequality in India, as this is a country in the process of economic growth during the Modi government? The research uses constructivism as a theoretical basis to understand religion and social norms based on the case study methodology. The work starts from the reading of themes that explain Hinduism as a religion, philosophy and influencer of the social condition based on the caste system to the case study that seeks to understand the adoption of the ethnic religious Hindutva discourse by Modi as a driver for the execution of policies which, at the same time, promoted economic development, but maintained levels of social inequality. Finally, we understand that Hinduism influences the freedom of social conditions, establishing tolerance to social inequality amid the process of economic development, but that the conduct of this element by Hindutva policy is a means of continuity and imposition of these acceptances.