Undergraduate honors paper--Mount Holyoke College, 2005. Dept. of History. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 134-140).

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The Catholic Church is the greatest institution of religious, cultural, political and economic nature of visible structure that still exists in operation. It is recognized for the high hierarchy, the bureaucracy and the organization of its territory delimited from practices developed for its expansion and maintenance. In this universe, we ask about the current space occupied by the Catholic Church and the actions developed by it to consolidate its dominant position in Sergipe. We also try to understand the logic of this process by interpreting the existing relations of power for its operation. Thus, we make the thesis that the Catholic Church maintains its territory, landscape and heritage through power relations of symbolic ando of representation. So, this study aimed to identify: the factors that have contributed and, in a certain way, influenced the actions of the Catholic Church in the creation of its territories; territorial logics adopted; strategies of the institution to act on identity and approach of the devotee. To make the interpretation of the Catholic Church, we use the cultural and religious approach of geography combined with methodological purpose of qualitative and quantitative analysis, linked to three procedures for understanding the reality: a simple observation for description, the data collection in primary and secondary sources for the quantification and qualification and interviews for the representation. As a result, we understand that the Catholic Church is an established institution that has passed by a territorial reframing and that administers and consolidates its territory and landscape through private actions which form in Sergipe, two trends of the Catholic Church in the same territory: the South institution, which comprises two dioceses, more traditional followers of the precepts established by the bishops of Brazil; and Northern dioceses, which by reason of popular Catholicism, has a profile of closest approach of the Catholic Church and its ideals with the devotees. / A Igreja Católica é a maior instituição de caráter religioso, cultural, político e econômico de estrutura visível que ainda está em funcionamento. Ela é reconhecida pela alta hierarquização, burocratização e pela organização de seus territórios, delimitados a partir de práticas desenvolvidas para sua expansão e manutenção. Nesse universo, indagamos o atual espaço ocupado pela Igreja Católica e as ações desenvolvidas por ela para consolidar sua posição dominante em Sergipe. Buscamos, ainda, compreender as lógicas desse processo pela interpretação das relações de poder existentes para seu funcionamento. Destarte, elaboramos a tese de que a Igreja Católica mantém seu território, sua paisagem e seu patrimônio por meio das relações de poder do simbólico e da representação. Para tanto, esta pesquisa objetivou identificar: os fatores que contribuíram e, de certa maneira, influenciaram a atuação da Igreja Católica, na criação de seus territórios; as lógicas territoriais adotadas; as estratégias da instituição para atuar na identidade e aproximar-se dos devotos. Para efetuar a interpretação da Igreja Católica, apropriamo-nos da abordagem cultural e religiosa da Geografia conjugada à proposta metodológica de análise qualitativa e quantitativa, interligada a três procedimentos para entendermos a realidade: a observação simples para a descrição, os levantamentos de dados em fontes primárias e secundárias para a quantificação e qualificação e as entrevistas para a representação. Como resultado, compreendemos que a Igreja Católica é uma instituição consolidada, que passou por uma ressignificação territorial e que administra e consolida seu território e paisagem por meio de ações particulares que formam, em Sergipe, duas vertentes da Igreja em um mesmo território católico: a instituição do Sul, que engloba duas dioceses, mais tradicionais, seguidoras dos preceitos instituídos pelos bispos do Brasil e a do Norte, que, pela prática do catolicismo popular, tem um perfil de maior aproximação da Igreja Católica e de seus ideais com os devotos.

Co-tutelle de thèse Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne / Université Libre de Bruxelles, sous la direction conjointe de Michel KAPLAN (Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne) et de Jean-Marie SANSTERRE (Université Libre de Bruxelles)<p><p><p>L’épiscopat constitue un fondement essentiel mais méconnu de l’Église mésobyzantine. Malgré la relative rareté des sources, il est possible d’en retracer l’histoire et les grandes évolutions :une part importante de l’hagiographie de l’iconoclasme et post-iconoclaste concerne en effet métropolites et évêques, témoignant du lien fort existant entre ceux-ci et le peuple des cités dont ils ont la charge, particulièrement quand ils sont considérés saints par la population. De nombreuses sources épistolaires, ecclésiastiques et sigillographiques, émanant des évêques eux-mêmes, permettent d’approcher les réalités du corps épiscopal et celles de la société provinciale qu’il représente auprès des autorités centrales. L’évêque apparaît également comme le relais des volontés impériale et patriarcale dans les provinces de l’Empire. Dans un contexte de compétition de pouvoir avec les autorités locales, l’évêque tente ainsi d’imposer le sien propre, dans ses aspects spatiaux, sociaux, religieux et symboliques.<p>L’approche collective et les approches individuelles de l’épiscopat doivent permettre de comprendre les réalités sociales d’un Empire de plus en plus centré sur sa capitale et dont sont progressivement détachées, du moins dans les sources, les périphéries. Une histoire décentrée de l’Empire byzantin passe dès lors par des études régionales mais aussi par des études consacrées à des groupes sociaux enracinés dans tout l’Empire, surtout lorsque, comme les évêques, ils revendiquent la spécificité de leur région et leur attachement à une société provinciale qui constitue le socle de l’Empire.<p><p>/ <p><p>The episcopate is an essential structure of the middle-Byzantine Church ;however, it remains little known. Although sources are limited, its history and evolution can still be reconstructed, as a large portion of the iconoclastic and post-iconoclastic hagiography deals with metropolitans and bishops. The sources reveal the strong connection between bishops and the inhabitants of the cities under their responsibility, especially when the population considers them as saints. Numerous epistolary, ecclesiastic and sigillographic documents issued by bishops themselves partially unveil the realities of the episcopal group and the provincial society that bishops represent to the central authorities. The bishop also serves as relay of both imperial and patriarchal wills to the provinces of the Empire. Competing with local authorities, the bishop thus tries to impose his own influence in its spatial, social, religious and symbolic dimensions.<p>Both collective and individual approaches of the episcopate make the social realities of the Empire more understandable, as it becomes more and more focused on its capital city while its peripheries gradually move away, which documentation seems to imply. Regional studies, but also studies focused on social groups established across the whole Empire, are the fundamentals of a decentred history of the Byzantine Empire. This is especially true since social groups such as bishops claim the specificity of their regions and their link to a provincial society that represents the cornerstone of the Empire. / Doctorat en Histoire, art et archéologie / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished