This dissertation argues that female piety and mission practices shaped the Evangelical Protestantism and the missionary movement that emerged from the Réveil [Revival] in nineteenth century France. It shows that women through their writings, their philanthropic initiatives, and their focus on education and social renewal on behalf of children laid the foundation for French Protestant mission and outreach. This study fills a gap in Anglophone scholarship on the role of women in French Protestant mission history and the history of the nineteenth century Evangelical Revival in France. After the Reformation, Protestant women preserved the Huguenot cultural identity of Protestants both at home and abroad. This continuity was manifested in the nineteenth century when the countries of the Huguenot Refuge sent missionaries of the Evangelical Revival back into France. The ethos of Jan Hus’ Dcerka [The Daughter] present in the work of French Protestant women in philanthropy, education, and social renewal demonstrates the continuity in piety and outreach from the Reformation to the nineteenth century. After the founding of the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society in 1822, the Paris Mission women’s committee, led by Albertine de Broglie and Émilie Mallet, played a crucial role in promoting missions by mediating regional and class differences between Protestants. Late eighteenth century female initiatives on behalf of vulnerable women and children laid the foundation for the work of missions because, through them, women developed networks that served the goals of philanthropy, fundraising, and infant education. Infant school education, pioneered in the Lesotho Mission by Elizabeth Lyndall Rolland, was essential to women’s mission practice. The infant school pedagogy of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi and Jean-Frédéric Oberlin, with its religious teaching, the centrality of the female role, and the emphasis on kindness was the key component in the work of the Lesotho Mission. In the 1830s, the arrival of missionary wives launched the work of the Lesotho Mission and energized French Protestant faith. In the 1840s, women once again sparked spiritual renewal with the creation of deaconess communities in Paris and Strasburg that served as models of Christian unity and self-sacrificial service. Overall, women’s piety and outreach were sources of revitalization in the Reformed Church and influenced early Evangelical Protestantism in nineteenth century France. Women’s mission practices that focused on works of mercy, education, and the nurturing of Christian families served as catalysts for renewal.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-14T12:23:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 3362573 bytes, checksum: dd445cfcb6e4f08f357081815ffe1c4b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-09-24 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / In this Dissertation we analyze the diffusion of the Annales historiography in Brazil, from the historiographical production printed during the first decade of circulation of the Revista de História, periodical from São Paulo founded, in 1950, by the historian Eurípedes Simões de Paula from University of São Paulo. To examine this matter we have established, initially, the social and institutional place of this periodical, through analysis that considered its materiality, the profile of its collaborators and the intellectual trajectory of its founder. Then, we evaluated the series of works published in that journal, with the goal of position the place that the annaliste historiography occupied in that publication. The data obtained using these examinations were fundamental to explain the reasons that justified the dissemination of the Annales historiography in the pages of Revista de História. Such information, together with the research undertook around the Annales magazines, helped us to realize that the spread of annaliste historiography did not cease to relate to a set of practices, which intended, above all, to legitimate positions in the intellectual and political fields. In this context, we have seen how the transfer of such ideas was fed, primarily, by issues which are not restricted, only, to the interest in the development of historiographical knowledge. / Nesse trabalho de Dissertação, analisamos a difusão da historiografia dos Annales no Brasil, a partir da produção historiográfica impressa durante a primeira década de circulação da Revista de História, periódico paulista fundado, em 1950, pelo historiador uspiano Eurípedes Simões de Paula. Para examinarmos essa problemática, estabelecemos, inicialmente, o lugar social e institucional dessa revista, através de análises que consideraram a sua materialidade, o perfil dos seus colaboradores e a trajetória intelectual do seu fundador. Em seguida, avaliamos o conjunto de trabalhos publicados nesse suporte, com o intuito de situar o lugar que a historiografia annaliste ocupou nessa publicação. Os dados obtidos por meio desses exames foram fundamentais para explicarmos os motivos que justificaram a difusão da historiografia dos Annales nas páginas da Revista de História. Essas informações, somadas à pesquisa empreendida em torno das revistas dos Annales, ajudaram-nos a perceber que a disseminação da historiografia annaliste não deixou de relacionar-se a um conjunto de práticas, que objetivavam, sobretudo, legitimar posições no campo intelectual e político. Em meio a esse contexto, pudemos constatar o quanto a transferência dessas idéias foi alimentada, sobretudo, por questões que não se restringiram, somente, ao interesse pelo desenvolvimento do conhecimento historiográfico.