O mito dos Jesuítas em Portugal : séculos XVI-XX

Revista Lusófona de Ciência das ReligiõesA presente dissertação propõe uma análise, perspectivada na longa duração, das percepções polémicas do carácter, da acção e do papel dos Jesuítas nos diferentes âmbitos da história de Portugal, enquanto configuradoras de uma imagem que ganhou contornos mitificantes, especialmente a partir do ministério político do Primeiro Ministro de D. José I (175-1777). Assim, o Marquês de Pombal é aqui estudado como o fundador do mito da Companhia de Jesus em Portugal. Mas não é possível compreender as raízes, a dimensão, o impacte, as funcionalidades e o significado deste mito negro na cultura e na mentalidade portuguesas se não tivermos em conta os antecedentes deste processo de engendramento de uma imagiologia mítica e a sua recepção e recriação posterior. Por isso, a nossa prospecção hermenêutica insere a fundação pombalina do mito jesuíta numa banda temporal mais lata, que nos permite apreciar a génese, a formação e a evolução do mito, englobando mais de quatro séculos de história

New christians, converted hindus, jesuits, and the inquisition

This paper analyses the complex relationship between Jesuits, New Christians, converted Hindus, and the Inquisition. The collaboration of Jesuits with the Holy Office did not prevent voices from being raised within the Society of Jesus against the tribunal’s practices, which were observed with caution by the first Jesuit leaders. For their part, conversos were initially welcomed into the Society and even assumed high positions in the Society, such as the second superior general. Despite the difficult history of intolerance and inquisitorial persecution against New Christians, in the seventeenth century, Jesuits in Portugal became prominent advocates of their cause. In turn, Hindu conversion strategies fueled disputes and tensions between the Society of Jesus and the Inquisition of Goa. Their strained relations make these disputes an important historiographical subject for understanding many of the plots and dramas of Portuguese society under the Old Regime.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Pierre-Antoine Fabre

Pierre-Antoine Fabre is one of the most notable French historians of our time, best known for his studies of religious history and anthropology, in their relations with cultural and political history. Remarkable works include Ignacio de Loyola. El Lugar de la Imagén (Ciudad de México, 2012 [1992]), and La XXVe Session du Concile de Trente (Paris, 2013), which approach reception and representation processes. His research on the history of the Jesuits, on literature of spirituality and modern devotional movements, drawing on the legacy of Marcel Bataillon and Michel de Certeau, had a significant influence on the renewal of epistemological and methodological perspectives in the scientific field of European religious history, both as a foundation, and a promotor of other research fields, which benefit from the extension of critical approaches to the religious phenomena.Esta publicação foi financiada por Fundos Nacionais através da FCT — Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, no âmbito do Projeto «UID/ELT/00077/2013»info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

The DNA of Portuguese language and culture: the «Pioneer Works of Portuguese Culture» project

The identity of Portugal has been developed through its culture, which has produced its pioneer works between the 12th and 18th centuries. The Pioneer Works of Portuguese Culture (Franco and Fiolhais, 2017) is a collection of innovative works, now in press, which contributed to shaping Portuguese language and culture. The Pioneer Works aim to make the founding texts of Portuguese culture widely known. According to our criteria of selection, these are the texts written in Portuguese language that inaugurated certain areas of knowledge within the country borders. The introductory essays of each volume contain essential insights about these texts that created knowledge in the most diverse fields, including grammar, history, fictional literature, pedagogy, ethics, politics, theology, nautical sciences, botany, medicine, physics, chemistry, engineering, etc., besides literature and artistic creation. A project of this kind, based on a rigorous systematization and textual assessment of the original sources, allows the dissemination of research results achieved in the last decades, after the discovery of previously unpublished or little known sources.Esta publicação foi financiada por Fundos Nacionais através da FCT — Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, no âmbito do Projeto «UID/ELT/00077/2013»info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Between Nero and Prometheus: the Marquis of Pombal and the emergence of party history (18th-21st centuries)

Obra sob a coordenação de: José Eduardo Franco, Luiz Eduardo Oliveira e Christine VogelHaving achieved international fame during his lifetime and becoming the political figure most written about inside and outside his native country, the national importance of the Marquis of Pombal was confirmed in 1934, when a monumental statue was erected in his honor in the center of Lisbon, Pombal. However, until today he is the object of polemics and controversies, in universities and at the tables of bars, where, throughout history, supporters and opposers of his political and administrative acts dispute primacy, making the mythology of the Marquis of Pombal something alive in Portuguese culture. In addition to taking care of his own image, Pombal organized a powerful propaganda scheme that did not exclude symbolic paintings, medals, panegyrics, sonnets and theatrical plays in his honor, exerting absolute control over his own biography. However, if during his government his supporters and sycophants glorified him, there were few who remained by his side after the death of D. José and his fall from government, during the so-called “viradeira”. This book, which brings together a team of experienced researchers dedicated to studying of the Pombaline period, is a proof that the Marquis of Pombal, being one of the most fascinating and controversial characters in European history, is part of a central and decisive moment in the history of the Portuguese empire, but also in the process of organization and unification of Brazil.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Educação para a Democracia no Fim da Ditadura em Portugal: O Contributo de Manuel Antunes, S.J.

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Joaquim de Flora e a sua influência na cultura portuguesa

O joaquimismo foi um dos elementos, ao lado de outros, que indubitavelmente fizeram parte, como fermento, da massa fértil das utopias portuguesas.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Portugal e a história do futuro do mundo no Pensamento Utópico do Padre António Vieira

Este nosso breve estudo pretende analisar a ideia messiânica de Portugal patenteada na reflexão identitária e utópica do Padre António Vieira. Destacaremos os principais textos e ideotemas do grande pregador jesuíta onde são cinzeladas visões de Portugal e do futuro da europa e do mundo, de modo a ensaiarmos a compreensão do seu significado no contexto da sua produção retórica e tendo em conta as preocupações nacionalizantes e/ou religiosas que estão na base do discurso em torno do continente em que o seu país se situava e onde estava situada a sede temporal da sua igreja. Portanto, a compreensão da ideia de Portugal em vieira será umbilicalmente interligada com o seu ideário católico fundamental, isto é, com a sua eclesiologia, e coma sua afeção nacionalizante, ou seja, com a sua lusitanologia