The renovation of the political for the religious

signs and update of an Impeachment

Abstract

This article proposes the analysis of an emblematic case for the region of South American countries, such as the impeachment of the president of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff (2016). We seek to delve into what we call the intervention of the religious semiosphere as a political action based on certain religious logistics, as well as norms of political-judicial decisions. The proposed analysis, from a semiotic perspective, allows us to move forward to also understand movements that are taking place today in some governments in the South American region. This is because the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff can be understood as a sign that, potentially, allows us to infer about the present. We identified how actors in the parliamentary political field, when justifying their vote in favor of the impeachment, made use of arguments that were not
customary in the parliamentary sphere until now. We are not proposing that the political-religious relationship is new or original. But we can infer that we are experiencing something different as the resignification that strengthens a semiotic tension with consequences, of unalterable appearance of renewal, transformation and transfiguration into something else, a third element of the religious construed as
political.