Abstract

NERIS, Wheriston Silva  and  SEIDL, Ernesto. International circulation, politicization, and changes in the religious role. Rev. Bras. Hist. Educ [online]. 2015, vol.15, n.2, pp.279-308. ISSN 2238-0094.  https://doi.org/10.4025/rbhe.v15i2.800.

This article examines the changes in the patterns of public action of an Italian religious institute settled in Northeastern Brazil since the 1950s - the Comboni Missionaries of the Heart of Jesus. Those missionaries became major agents of the political and cultural history of contemporary Catholicism as they acted in the frontiers of the Catholic territories and were committed to multiple issues. This approach allows us taking the evolution of the missionary perspective as a fruitful observatory to understand some processes such as the transformation of the relationship between the political and the religious spheres in Brazil, the redefinitions of the religious role, and its connections with the work of missionaries abroad.

Keywords : Catholic Congregations; International Circulation; Politicization; Comboni Missionaries.

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