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Ecclesiastical power and Inquisition in the Luso-Brazilian Eighteenth Century: agents, careers and mechanisms of social promotion

Grant number: 12/21834-4
Support Opportunities:Regular Research Grants - Publications - Books published in Brazil
Start date: January 01, 2013
End date: December 31, 2013
Field of knowledge:Humanities - History - History of Brazil
Principal Investigator:Aldair Carlos Rodrigues
Grantee:Aldair Carlos Rodrigues
Host Institution: Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (IFCH). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The main question of this work is the multifaceted relationship established between the ecclesiastical structures of Portuguese America and the Holly Office through the clergy (and their careers) during the eighteenth century. We clarify these little known aspects of the strategies that made possible the presence of the Inquisition in Brazil, a land that has never hosted a tribunal of the Inquisition. This lack hypertrophied the connections between the local ecclesiastical sphere and the inquisitorial sphere. We investigate also the impact of these institutional apparatuses in colonial society, particularly highlighting their roles in the process of structuring of social hierarchies (AU)

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