Popular religiousity and reformist movements in the breakdown of the Empire: Campinas, 1870-1880

• Grant number: 17/02575-1
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: July 01, 2017
• End date: June 30, 2019
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - History of Brazil
• Principal Investigator: Aldair Carlos Rodrigues
• Grantee: João Lucas Moura e Souza
• Host Institution: Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (IFCH). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This project focuses on the impacts of the modernizing and conservative reformist discourses and practices of the 1870s that sought to change popular religious manifestations, with an emphasis on their festivities in Campinas region. Although the various reformist agendas constituted in the crisis of the empire were conceived from predominantly unilateral senses, this research proposal is based on the assumption that the dynamics of its applications and the way in which they transformed the festivities of Catholicism (and its experiences Religious) were deeply marked by multilateral dimensions. The objective is to study the dynamics of the relations between the reformist agenda and the daily life of the population, taking into account the protagonism and historical agency of the people involved in the Catholic popular festivals, sheding light on elements such as cultural appropriation and re - signification. It analyzes the different strategies of resistance, assimilation, repression and bargaining used by the popular classes according to the prohibitive actions adopted by the Campinas elite in that context. (AU)