The Emergence of Evangelical Power in the Philippines: An Analysis Based on the Particular Case of a Born Again Reform Group
Since 2016, the War on Drugs in the Philippines is supported by a majority of the population. Some of the allies of President Rodrigo Duterte defend the reinstatement of capital punishment in the archipelago, based on a theological-political argument. These allies are the instrument of a new type of evangelical power that also manifests itself in the United States and Brazil. From the particular case of the reformed Born Again group and the findings of a survey conducted between 2019 and 2021, the article is rooted in a Science of Education perspective. It aims to describe the implementation of evangelical power as well as some of its characteristics, by proposing a reflection on the change of relation to knowledge that operates through the enforcement of evangelical doctrine and the concept of truth of the subject, which civil authority has seized.