Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Entre jornais, revistas e livros: a educação jesuítica no Ceará nas décadas de 1920 e 1930 e a memória histórica da Companhia de Jesus
2012; Associação Sul-Rio-Grandense de Pesquisadores em História da Educação (ASPHE); Volume: 16; Issue: 37 Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
2236-3459
Autores Tópico(s)History of Colonial Brazil
ResumoThis work addresses the memory and educational activities of the Jesuits outlawed by the Republic of Portugal, relating it to the production of printed material which resulted from work of its intellectuals and historians. It starts from the episode of the expulsion of the Jesuits by the Republic of Portugal, which was recorded like chronicle of that Company by means of the libel “The Outcasts”, and several other reminiscent publications, as a political strategy of the Provincial Father Luis Gonzaga Cabral, focused in two directions: 1) founding of formation houses and residences in Europe, as the core of survival of the Portuguese Jesuit Province; 2) strengthening of the missions in India, then a British territory, and creating new fields of missionary activity, the case of Brazil, where the Northern Mission of the Outcast Portuguese Province was organized. Based on the checked historiography, this work points out that this Mission, in addition to mark the return of the Jesuits to the Northeast of Brazil, after the expulsion by Pombal, becomes a place for reconstructing the historical memory of the Society of Jesus, through its schools and residences as well as the intense circulation of periodicals and books between the two countries and within them. It uses historiographic and journalistic sources used on the Portuguese Jesuits in Portugal and Brazil, obtained from libraries and archives of the Catholic and secular institutions, highlighting the importance of books, newspapers and magazines published by the Jesuit entities, such as the Journal Broteria, edited in Portugal, for the preservation of historical memory of the Society of Jesus, in particular articles by Father Serafim Leite, who are related to his magnum opus, History of the Society of Jesus in Brazil, during the colonial era, part of the purpose of recovery of the missionary importance of the aforementioned congregation in the face of persecution it suffered, based on a tradition inaugurated since the founding of the Company, both in order to garner support and sympathy from the Church and the Catholic environment, and to get protection against their opponents, by the means of the famous letters of Ignatius of Loyola, a practice that favored the archives buildup and, consequently, detailed information about the memory and history of the Brotherhood. This work analyzes the performance of the outlawed Jesuits in Ceara, showing the close relationship between the Catholic press, integralism fundamentalism and education, at the moment when the Catholic elite is summoned, through the famous spiritual exercises in closed religious retreats for men, both in the capital, and in the interior of Ceara , so as to strengthen the jesuits
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