Modernidade no Brasil, Igreja catÃlica, identidade nacional : prÃticas e estratÃgias intelectuais: 1889 â 1930

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2009

RESUMO

This research analyzes the historic Catholic influence in the formation of national identity during the period between 1889 and 1930, studying the Catholic intellectuals of the State of Pernambuco. We found that there was a way to be elite in Brazil, in the end of the nineteenth century and beginning of XX, which was related to a Catholic intellectual posture, especially in the Northeast. The analysis of the documentation can say both that the confluence between modernity and Catholicism were part of a larger project, the construction of a Catholic identity for Brazil, while the identity of the Brazilian elite was permeated by the Catholic proposal of national identity. This was possible precisely because it responded to concerns of identity Republican Brazilian society, then in the process of structuring, with the converging evidence that the majority of the population considered as those of modernity - the material progress and adjustments to new life. At the same time, the proposal also Catholic response to questions from Brazilian intellectuals on the origin and future of the nation, proposing the use of historiographic narratives and symbols of Catholicism as symbols of the nation. We used, as primary sources for the work, both documentation produced under Catholic, as sources from the secular world. The theoretical framework was built from the concepts of Pierre Bourdieu, about the functioning of various social fields, and Peter Berger, of the structures of plausibility, such concepts have a better understanding of the mechanisms of development and diffusion of Catholic identity in the proposal secular society, during the period studied. Among religious nature of the documentation there is the official documentation of the Catholic Church (encyclicals and pastoral letters), and documentation produced by lay Catholics, such as newspapers, newsletters, books and documents relating to Catholic schools, was also part of our search for literature quoted and produced by Catholic intellectuals. Regarding the documentation relating to the intellectual lay out the literature produced by members of IHGB and IAHGP as well as newspapers and literature produced during the period under study. As a result we can state that the proposal for the Catholic identity was appropriate for the Brazilian intellectual elite Brazilian through conciliation of arguments of Catholicism and modernity

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history of religions naÃÃo nation elites catolicismo identidade nacional igreja catÃlica - brasil religiÃo - histÃria historia national identity histÃria

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