The curtains that hide the Valley: religion and secularization in the diocese of Limoeiro do Norte/CE (1940-1980)

Author(s)

Edwilson Soares Freire

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: Franca. 2016-02-26.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais. Franca
• Defense date: 2016-02-24
• Advisor: Ivan Aparecido Manoel

Abstract

This thesis investigates how the binomial religion/secularism would have happened in forty years of history of the bishopric in Jaguaribana zone, State of Ceará. After the first bishop conceived a “tabernacle of faith” for the region, it reconstitutes up the building process of the “pillars” of this tabernacle and fabric of their “curtains”. The thesis reconstitutes as Limoeiro was transformed into “convent county” and how it got rid of this model to take up the position of “Princess from Jaguaribe”. The project “shutting the curtains” around the Valley admits five stages: (1) creation of the bishopric and isolation liberation project; (2) construction of the columns and fabric of the curtains in “tabernacle of faith”; (3) valence of Christian tradition and Romanized doctrine; (4) religious fading and conciliar renewal of the Church and (5) consolidation of secularizing modernization. It matted to all this, it investigates how Limoeirense elite accommodated its emancipation plan and progress of the city to the bishop’s project and how the process of breaking went, whereupon the elite creates the imaginary of “Princess from Valley” for Limoeiro do Norte. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 12/09428-0 - The curtains are closing the Valley: religion and secularism, modernity and nostalgia in the Diocese of Limoeiro do Norte, CE, Brazil (1940-1980)
• Grantee: Edwilson Soares Freire
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate