Abstract

COSTA, Célio Juvenal  and  OLIVEIRA, Anderson dos Santos de. Education jesuitin Portuguese America: the positive laws cancellation and the market rationality. Rev. Educ. Questão [online]. 2015, vol.53, n.39, pp.218-241. ISSN 1981-1802.  https://doi.org/10.5965/1981180253392015218.

The objective of this paper is to determine the plausibility of our thesis that the requests of positive laws cancellation, present in the Jesuit letters of Portuguese America in the sixteenth century, show that the action of missionaries in Brazil in the 16th century, in addition to its religious purposes, have been marked also by market rationality. We argue that the Jesuits acted tuned to contingencies that European, Portuguese and Brazilian reality. The reformist spirit amounted to merchant mentality, and gave the mission the garb of religious enterprise. Thus, the logic to have spiritual profite directed the praxis of those souls merchants.

Keywords : Society of Jesus; Market rationality; Portuguese America..

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