Religiões e voto: a eleição presidencial de 1994

A filiacao religiosa teria alguma influencia sobre o voto? Para o Brasil de hoje, em que tantas sao as alternativas religiosas, com diversas visoes de mundo e diferentes nocoes de politica, e tao intenso e o movimento de conversao e reconversao, esta questao ganha importância cada vez maior. Em 1994, no decorrer da campanha eleitoral para presidente da Republica, trabalhando em colaboracao com institutos de pesquisa de opiniao, foi possivel incluir em alguns surveys de alcance nacional perguntas sobre filiacao religiosa e participacao em movimentos religiosos. E com esta especie de informacao, praticamente inedita entre nos, que buscamos responder a pergunta sobre a relacao religiao-voto. Abstract Does the religious affiliation have any influence over the vote? Today in Brazil, where there are many religious options, with many views of the world, different concerns on politics, and a very intensive movement towards conversion and reconversion, this question has much more importance. During the 1994 electoral campaign for the Presidency, the colaboration of public opinion research institutes had made possible to applying questions about the religious affiliation and the participation in religious movements in national quantitative surveys – with this kind of information, practically unknown within us, we seek to answer the question about the relationship between the religion and the vote. Keywords: Religion, presidential election, religious participation, political participation