Abstract

ALMEIDA, Jane Soares de. The missionary and educational protestant movement in the last half of the XIX Century: for each church one school. Educ. Rev. [online]. 2002, n.20, pp.185-207. ISSN 0104-4060.

The Protestants, who came to Brazil at the last decades of the 19th Century, presented themselves as and wished being exponents of a renovating strength which didn’t just intend the adjustment of its members to the dominant political-social conditions but, besides, aspired for economic changes inspired in what had been happening in its origin country, supporting the might of the incipient capitalism that had been delineated since the mid-Century. Assuming a posture of progress and development, allied to an ethical behavior pattern where the austerity reigned, they defended the secularistic vocation between Church and State, the liberal and democratic education, and they were opposed to the retrograde totalitarianism defended by the Catholics emerged in strong elitist and traditional spirit. It was the idea of the manifested destiny of a people that had the divine incumbency of taking the true faith to the heathens and idolaters who lived in the four parts of the world.

Keywords : Protestant Missionarism; Education.

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