Abstract

AFONSO, José António  and  SILVA, António Manuel S. P.. Modernity and religious minorities. The archives of the Lusitanian Church (19th-20th centuries). Cad. Hist. Educ. [online]. 2019, vol.18, n.1, pp.238-265.  Epub May 06, 2019. ISSN 1982-7806.  https://doi.org/10.14393/che-v18n1-2019-14.

The emergence in Portugal of Anglican shaped religious currents throughout the 19th century culminated, in 1880, in the constitution of the Lusitanian Catholic Apostolic Evangelical Church. This religious body resulted from the intersection of several Catholic priests who are dissatisfied with the new doctrines and the liturgical, pastoral and social praxis of Roman Catholic Church with the protestant and evangelical movements that meanwhile had started its activity at various points of the Country. Based upon this melted ecclesiastical identity, the Lusitanian Church was guided in its actions by a strong investment in popular education and the creation of devices promoters of education, encouraging the free thought and socialization based on Christian principles but also of a conscious and interventive citizenship. In this text we aim to present, on the one hand, in general terms, Lusitanian Church’s archivistic funds and its important historical library, and, on the other hand, present the process of creating the LC Historical Archive, highlighting the constraints and results achieved so far until now, stressing its growing importance and value to the study and understanding of the role of religious minorities in the construction of modernity.

Keywords : Religious minorities; Lusitanian Church; Anglicanism; Institutional archives.

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