State and Catholic Church: the social movement of christianity release under the supervision of DOPS / SP (1954-1974)

Author(s)

Admar Mendes de Souza

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD)
• Defense date: 2009-06-29

Examining board members

Maria Aparecida de Aquino; Sara Albieri; José Oscar Beozzo; Antonio Rago Filho; Luiz Eugenio Vescio

• Advisor: Maria Aparecida de Aquino

Abstract

The long standing presence of the Catholic Church in Brazil was characterized by the permanent contact with the instances of the power of the state. Side by side or in opposite fields, but always in the conditions of forces that influenced each other, this relationship ends the important part of the national history. Having this like a background, via the documentation produced by the Department of Political and Social order of the State of Sao Paulo considering the catholic social sector, this research attempted to learn the political and religious elements that could have caused conflicts between the State/Church between 1954 to 1974. The discourses and the practices of one part of the national Catholicism in search of an economic reformulation of society, based on the capitalist logic, was seen as one of the reasons for these contradictions. (AU)