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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Ecos da fé na alma e na obra de Eça de Queiróz:uma visão crítica da Igreja e da Religião Católicas no século XIX

Angela Cristina Sarvat de Figueiredo 30 October 2008 (has links)
Esta dissertação, inserida na linha de pesquisa de Política e Cultura, trata da visão crítica de Eça de Queiroz sobre a Igreja Católica, sobre o catolicismo popular e a relação Igreja-Estado em Portugal do século XIX. O trabalho aprofunda as idéias do autor estabelecidas no momento histórico do chamado movimento da Regeneração, na segunda metade do século, marcado por propostas de denúncias da decadência da sociedade e de mudanças e reformas modernizantes nas estruturas econômicas, sociais, políticas educacionais e culturais do país. Analisa questões relevantes ligadas à política da época como o liberalismo monárquico, a política do estado constitucional português, a política ultramontana do Vaticano e seus desdobramentos em Portugal, além do catolicismo institucionalizado nas práticas políticas e culturais. A partir de fontes primárias como os trabalhos jornalísticos do autor, publicados no Brasil e em Portugal, assim como cartas para seus amigos intelectuais da chamada Geração 70, aborda questões como o anticlericalismo, antijesuitismo, Padroado, regalismo e o projeto cultural português de secularização. Observando o extremo espírito perspicaz e sarcástico do autor, o trabalho conclui por entender o escritor como forte defensor de reformas nas práticas, discursos e preocupações da Igreja Católica de seu tempo, assim como voz exigente e consonante a outros intelectuais da época em prol de novo comprometimento e atuação dessa mesma Igreja. Por fim, estabelece o autor como um expoente entre a intelectualidade por ser protagonista de um movimento de renovação política e cultural, como catalisador da opinião pública de seu tempo, e acima de tudo, autor de uma obra de relevância literária e jornalística, capaz de impor-se como efetiva proposta inovadora para a modernidade portuguesa da época. / This dissertation, insert on the research segment of Politics and Culture, talks about Eça de Queirozs critical vision about the Catholic Church, the popular catholicism and the Church-State relations in Portugal on the XIX century. The work deepens authors ideas determined in the historical moment named the movement of Regeneration, on the second half of that century, marked by propositions of denunciation concerning to societys decadence, the changes and modernizing reforms in the economic, social, political, educational and cultural structures of Portugal. It also analyses relevant issues relates to politics as the monarchical liberalism, the policy of the portuguese constitucional government, the policy taken by the ultramontanist Vatican and its developments in Portugal, beyond the catholicism established on cultural and political practices. From the use of original sources as journalisticals works wrotten by Eça, published in Brazil and in Portugal, and also examing his letters to his intellectual friends from the 70s Generation , the dissertation argues questions like anticlericalism, antijesuitism, portuguese padroado, regalism and the portuguese cultural project in order to convert Portugal in a secular state government. Observing the extraordinary, acute and sarcastic Eças intelligence, this work conclude for understanding the writer as a great protector of changes in the clerical customs, speechs and concerns of the Catholic Church at that time and also as an exacting voice connected with others intellectuals to the advance of a new performance and engagement of the Catholic Church. At last, this work determines the portuguese author as an great expert among the portuguese intellectuals because he was one of the fundamental protagonists in the cultural and political renovation movement of Portugal influencing its public opinion. He was, as well, a writer of an important and decisive literary and journalist work and, mainly, he was able to impose himself as a real promoter of the modernity in Portugal.
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O dispensacionalismo e a utilização de símbolos judaicos nos cultos evangélicos

Maynard, Cândido Luiz Santos 22 March 2016 (has links)
Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / The wear suffered over time, new technologies and new religious proposals are some of the challenges that evangelical, traditional, Pentecostal and neo-Pentecostal churches faces. This study aims to identify the possible reactions of the churches in the modern neo-Pentecostal, against the intervention of secularization and the role of dispensationalism in this action. After a long and rich historical process of pluralization of our religious matrix. As an instrument we made use of bibliographic research, based on proposals from authors such as Peter Berger, Ricardo Mariano and Charles C. Ryrie, and readings of Brazilian demographic data obtained from the IBGE - Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics. We seek to understand how neo-Pentecostal communities have sought to overcome this process, due to the little or apparent lack of symbols that bind their identity to the sacred, contrary to Catholicism that holds a "rich" symbolic capital, though losing their numerical leadership position every decade. What would be its maintenance tool of sacred symbols? We conclude that the use of symbolic capital of the Judaism is being used for this purpose. These appropriations are manifestations in response to pressures, using the dispensationalism, even unconsciously, to legitimize them institutionally. / O desgaste sofrido com o tempo, as novas tecnologias e as novas propostas religiosas são alguns dos desafios que as igrejas evangélicas, tradicionais, pentecostais e neopentecostais enfrentam. O presente trabalho tem por objetivo identificar as possíveis reações das igrejas neopentecostais na modernidade, diante da intervenção da secularização e o papel do Dispensacionalismo nessa ação. Depois de um longo e rico processo histórico de pluralização da nossa matriz religiosa. Como instrumento nos utilizamos da pesquisa bibliográfica, pautada nas propostas de autores como Peter Berger, Ricardo Mariano e Charles C. Ryrie, além de leituras dos dados demográficos brasileiros obtidos através do IBGE - Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística. Buscamos compreender como comunidades neopentecostais tem procurado vencer esse processo, por conta da pouca, ou aparente ausência de símbolos, que vinculem sua identidade ao sagrado, contrárias ao catolicismo que mantem um capital simbólico “riquíssimo”, embora perdendo sua posição de liderança numérica a cada década. Qual seria a sua ferramenta de manutenção da simbologia sagrada? Concluímos que os usos de capitais simbólicos do judaísmo estão sendo utilizados para esse fim. Essas apropriações são manifestações em resposta às pressões, utilizando-se do Dispensacionalismo, mesmo que inconscientemente, para legitima-las institucionalmente. / São Cristóvão, SE
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O governo dos homens na contemporaneidade: laicização do poder e subjetivação massificante / Government of men in contemporaneity: secularization of power and massifying subjetification

Barbosa, Aelton Leonardo Santos 29 July 2012 (has links)
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Constitucionalismo e resistência em Théodore de Béze: secularização e universalidade do direito de resistir na obra de Du Droit des Magistrats sur leurs sujets de 1574 / Constitutionalism and resistance in Théodore Bèze: secularization and the universality of the right to resist the work Du Droit des magistrats sur leurs sujets, 1574.

Silvio Gabriel Serrano Nunes 14 March 2011 (has links)
A presente dissertação de mestrado tem por finalidade examinar a questão do direito político de resistência elaborado por Théodore de Bèze em seu tratado Du Droit des Magistrats, de 1574, apontando a influência das fontes seculares, católicas, e a forma peculiar como Bèze dialoga com outros reformadores precedentes (Lutero, Calvino e Müntzer). Na análise da obra Du Droit des Magistrats, destacamos a recepção do argumento de resistência constitucional, preliminarmente elaborado pelos juristas da região de Hesse, por ocasião da crise vivida pelo luteranismo no raiar da década de 1530, e em larga medida desenvolvido e ampliado por Bèze, que lhe confere tom de universalidade. Por fim, apontaremos contribuições do pensamento político do reformador sucessor de Calvino em Genebra para os mecanismos de controle dos governantes na tradição do pensamento constitucionalista, como os que contemporaneamente denominamos de parlamentar e jurisdicional. / This study aims to analysis the political right of resistance developed by Théodore de Bèze in Du Droit des Magistrats, written on 1574, emphasizing the influence of secular and Catholic sources, and the particular way as Bèze communicates with another previous reformers (Lutero, Calvino e Müntzer). In the analysis of Du Droit des Magistrats, it will be highlighted the receipt of the constitutional argument of resistance, preliminarly drafted by jurists from Hesse when the Lutheranism felt in crisis, at 1530 decade, specially developed and broadened by Bèze. Finally, it will be pointed contributions from the political thought of the Reformer Calvinos sucessor in Geneva to the control mechanisms of the rulers in the tradition of constitutional thought, as the today considered parliamentary and judicial systems.
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Secularização e anticlericalismo no pensamento de André Rebouças

Souza, Maurício Severo de 28 February 2013 (has links)
Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2016-04-05T12:20:58Z No. of bitstreams: 1 mauricioseverodesouza.pdf: 914621 bytes, checksum: d4ce11b68d274f9abba013c22aa4ceb6 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2016-04-24T03:57:35Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 mauricioseverodesouza.pdf: 914621 bytes, checksum: d4ce11b68d274f9abba013c22aa4ceb6 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-24T03:57:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 mauricioseverodesouza.pdf: 914621 bytes, checksum: d4ce11b68d274f9abba013c22aa4ceb6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-02-28 / CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / O presente trabalho tem como objetivo compreender o discurso anticlerical de André Rebouças e seu lugar no projeto de secularização no Brasil, idealizado pelo autor nas últimas décadas do século XIX. Esse brasileiro influenciado por uma nova concepção de mundo, disseminada principalmente a partir da Revolução Industrial e Francesa do século XVIII, que serviu de base para o nascimento de um homem moderno, guiado pelos ideais de liberdade e igualdade, estruturando-se sobre a razão e o progresso, lutou para que tal visão fosse assimilada e praticada no Brasil do século XIX. Inicialmente serão trabalhadas as bases do pensamento de Rebouças, retomando conceitos e contextos históricos que influenciaram no pensamento e na atuação do engenheiro. Em seguida, será apresentado o embate entre visões de mundo opostas, o catolicismo e o protestantismo, e a possível influência que tais esferas religiosas tiveram na esfera pública. Será apresentado também o jornal O Novo Mundo e o discurso nele presente. Por fim, será trabalhada a influência da imprensa e a parceria entre André Rebouças, José Carlos Rodrigues e o periódico O Novo Mundo, apresentando artigos relacionados ao questionamento sobre a união entre Igreja e Estado, e o debate referente ao ultramontanismo defendido pela Igreja católica. Assim como, o contexto brasileiro na segunda metade do século XIX e os questionamentos do período. Dessa forma, esse trabalho busca mostrar a secularização e o anticlericalismo presentes no pensamento de André Rebouças. Estudar esse brasileiro é também entender o conflito de um homem moderno, influenciado por um discurso liberal e democrático, frente a uma Igreja, que ao lado do Estado, moldado a partir da influência colonial ibérica, defendeu um posicionamento conservador visando à permanência da ordem e da tradição. / The present work has as main goal, understand the Anti-clerical speech used by André Rebouças and its place in a Brazilian secularization project. This Brazilian was inspired by a new world´s conception, guided by ideals of freedom and equality, he fought for such vision could get be accepted and become practiced during the XIX Century. Initially it will be presented the pillars of Rebouças´s thoughts, resuming historical concepts and contexts, which inspire his mind and performance as engineer. Then, it will be developed, the confrontation between opposed world visions, the Catholicism and the Protestantism, and the possible influence that such religious spheres had exercised in the public environment. On the other hand, it will be presented the New World journal´s speech, and the partnership between André Rebouças and Carlos Rodrigues, contextualizing the XIX century in Brazil, and the questioning about the union among Ultramontana Catholic Church and the State. Thereby in this work, seek to show the Anti-clericalism and secularizations into the author´s mind. In the act of study this remarkable, Brazilian citizen, it is possible reach the understanding of a man´s modern conflict, inspired by a liberal and democratic speech, facing a Church that side by side, was defending a conservative position aiming the permanence of tradition and order.
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Universitários e religião: uma revisão bibliográfica

Silva, Gabriel Resgala 30 August 2010 (has links)
Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2016-10-04T19:00:02Z No. of bitstreams: 1 gabrielresgalasilva.pdf: 521782 bytes, checksum: 0ea7a05ee4c7836f913b5d4025d89688 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Diamantino Mayra (mayra.diamantino@ufjf.edu.br) on 2016-10-05T10:52:39Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 gabrielresgalasilva.pdf: 521782 bytes, checksum: 0ea7a05ee4c7836f913b5d4025d89688 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-10-05T10:52:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 gabrielresgalasilva.pdf: 521782 bytes, checksum: 0ea7a05ee4c7836f913b5d4025d89688 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-08-30 / CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / A Universidade moderna é geralmente vista como local laico e, muitas vezes, avesso à religião. Ao vislumbrar os desdobramentos de novas configurações religiosas nos últimos tempos, contudo, levanta-se a questão sobre a real abrangência dos processos de “desencatamento do mundo” e de secularização sobre a sociedade e os indivíduos. O presente estudo teve como objetivo revisar pesquisas que averiguaram a ocorrência de tais processos entre universitários, investigando aspectos da sua religiosidade. Os resultados apresentaram-se complexos, mesclando influências do campo religioso brasileiro, de características culturais regionais, da tradição familiar, de aspectos da cultura juvenil marcados pela presente época e do curso universitário escolhido. A influência do fator “modernizante” sobre a religião, embora acentuada, não significa necessariamente uma influência negativa do ambiente universitário sobre a religiosidade. / The modern university is generally seen as secular and often averse to religion. Analyzing the new religious settings recently unfolding, however, it raises the question about the real range of the processes of "world's desenchantment" and secularization of society and individuals. This study aims to review researches that have investigated the occurrence of such cases among university students, investigating their religiosity aspects. The results are complex, mixing influences from the Brazilian religious aspects, regional cultural characteristics, family tradition, actual youth aspects culture and the chosen university course itself. The influence of modernization on religion, however, do not means a negative influence of university environment on the religiosity.
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Social rörlighet över längre tid : Lärdomar från rekryteringen av präster under 140 år / Social mobility in the long run : Lessons from the recruitment of priests over 140 years

Bjurvald Johnzon, Jesper January 2018 (has links)
I denna uppsats undersöks den sociala rekryteringen till det svenska prästerskapet mellan åren 1826 och 1970. Forskningsproblemet är rotat i en bred metodologisk diskussion kring vad som egentligen utgör de historiska förutsättningarna för social rörlighet och vilket sätt som fungerar bäst för att komma fram till detta. En stor skiljelinje i den samtida forskningen gäller huruvida stora förändringar av samhället så som industrialisering och byggandet av en välfärdsstat över huvud taget påverkar förutsättningarna för uppåtgående social mobilitet.Uppsatsen undersöker social rekrytering genom tillämpningen av biografiska matriklar där präster är intecknade. Måtten på rörlighet som tillämpas ser till olika spridningar av efternamn och yrkesstatus hos prästernas föräldrar. Skiljelinjen i forskningsläget uttrycks som två olika teorier, Industrialiseringsteorin och Lagen om mobilitet. Den första menar att det går att förvänta sig markanta förändringar i den sociala rörligheten från och med industrialisering och den senare slår fast att social rörlighet är konstant över tid och okänslig för stora förändringar i samhället.Måtten som appliceras i uppsatsen erhålls från förespråkare av de två teorierna, dels för att jämföra måtten i sig och dels för att knyta samman metodologiska ansatser med hypoteser som jämte uppsatsens syfte får styra undersökningen. Resultatet visar att statliga reformer förknippade med industrialisering så som skiftesreformer har en avgörande effekt på materialet, men det står också klart att förändringar i själva samhällsyrket präster besitter också påverkar resultatet. Utöver detta står det också klart att social rörlighet i form av ökad representation av samhällsklasser sker oberoende av samhällsreformer sakta och konstant. Slutsatsen är att industrialisering har en tydlig effekt på social rörlighet men att rörligheten inom det svenska prästerskapet inte går att förklara ordentligt utan att ta hänsyn till utvecklingen av deras samhällsyrke. / The following essay explores the recruitment of Swedish priests between the years 1826 and 1970. The research problem stems from a broad methodological discussion among researchers concerned with what the historical preconditions for social mobility are, and how we are supposed to go about gauging it. A clear fault line between researchers concerns the impact of industrialization and the derivatives of it on social mobility, and whether historical change of this type actually influences upward social mobility at all.The source material utilized consists of biographical records on Swedish priests, using the data provided by these, the study measures social mobility by comparing the representation of surname groups and class attainment in the priest population over time. The identified fault in previous research is expressed by its division into two distinct theories: The Industrialization thesis and The law of mobility. The first theory states that changes in the rate of social mobility occurs in conjunction with industrialization and the latter states that the rate of mobility is constant over time.The applied measurements are procured from vocal supporters of both theories, partly in order to develop reasonable hypotheses for the essay, and partly to compare the measurements themselves. The results show that societal reforms associated with industrialization, explicitly those introduced by the government such as the rationalization of agriculture during the 19th century have a crucial effect on the distribution of surnames and class status. On the other hand, this change was slow and remarkably constant over longer time periods. The conclusion is that industrialization and its derivatives have a significant effect on social mobility, but that the mobility among the Swedish priesthood cannot be properly explained without taking the transformation that the role of priest underwent during the observed period.
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Secolarizzazione e ricomposizione del sacro in Italia : il caso delle comunità parrocchiali della Garfagnana / Sécularisation et recomposition du sacré en Italie : le cas des communautés paroissiales de la Garfagnana / Secularisation and recomposition of the sacred in Italy : the case of parish communities in Garfagnana

Rossi, Chiara 24 March 2016 (has links)
S’insérant dans l’ample débat sur la sécularisation, cette étude se focalise sur les modalités actuelles de coexistence, dans un contexte donné, de la sécularisation et de la dé-sécularisation qui se rencontrent et s’agencent parfois sur un mode insolite, générant nécessairement, à travers un processus de décomposition et de recomposition du religieux, des conséquences sur l’action des individus et sur les dynamiques collectives. À travers une approche ethnographique basée sur le principe de l’interconnaissance, sur la technique de l’observation participante et sur de nombreux entretiens en profondeur, l’enquête sonde les changements en acte à l’intérieur d’un univers rural qui remodèle actuellement les espaces et les formes de son système de croyances religieuses. Le terrain d’étude qui fait l’objet de notre enquête est une petite vallée de l’Italie centro-septentrionale (la Garfagnana) et la paroisse revêt le rôle de principal centre d’observation. Effectivement, dans le contexte considéré, cette institution apparait, au cours des siècles, comme un point de repèreessentiel non seulement pour la communauté religieuse mais aussi pour la société civile, et demeure l’instrument privilégié qu’utilise l’Église afin de maintenir et/ou de recréer le réseau de liens avec ses fidèles. L’analyse des dynamiques à travers lesquelles ces rapports sont conservés, créés et alimentés à l’intérieur de la communauté paroissiale nous mène à la compréhension de l’identité catholique de cette région singulière en mettant en évidence les modalités et les conséquences du croire – sur le plan tant individuel que collectif − ainsi que les motivations des différentescatégories d’acteurs. / This study, included in the wider debate regarding the secularisation process, mainly focuses on the ways in which nowadays secularisation and de-secularisation can coexist in a specific context, convening, at times adding to each other, and thus generating, through a process of decomposition and recomposition of the sacred, unavoidable consequences on individual actions and collective dynamics. Through an ethnographic approach, based on inter-knowledge, on participant observation techniques and on numerous in-depth interviews, the research examines the ongoing changes within a transitioning rural universe, which is remodelling spaces and structures of its religious belief system. The research was carried out in a small valley in Northern Italy (Garfagnana) and the main focus of the study was the parish. In this context, this institution has been over the centuries an important reference point, not only for the religious universe but also for the civil community and still today represents the privileged means by which the church creates and maintains the networkof bonds with its worshippers. The analysis of the dynamics by which , within a parish community, these bonds are preserved, recreated and nurtured has led us towards understanding the catholic identity of this particular region, highlighting the modalities, the motivations and the consequences of religious beliefs, on both an individual and collective level, of the many categories of participants.
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Shadow and Voice: The Vampire's Debt to Secular Modernity

Maynard, Luke R. J. 18 December 2013 (has links)
The past few years have seen a renewed critical interest in the vampires and vampirism of English literature, owing both to their growing influence in popular culture and a more inclusive reordering of the literary canon. Much of this recent work has typically approached vampirism through a psychoanalytic lens inherited from Gothic criticism, characterized by a dependence on Freud, Lacan, and Foucault, and often by a model of crisis in which these supernatural figures of terror are supposed to symbolize cultural anxieties with varying degrees of historicity. This dissertation builds upon the narrative of secularization set out in Charles Taylor’s recent work, A Secular Age, to answer the need for a new and alternative narrative of what function the vampire serves within English literature, and how it came to prominence there. The literary history of vampirism is reconsidered in light of the new sociological observations made by Taylor, hinging upon two key methodological principles: first, that Taylor’s new secularization narrative has the potential to reshape the way we think of literature in general and our literary relationship to the supernatural in particular; and second, that the fiction generated during this period of upheaval has much more to tell us about secularization, broadening our understanding of the ideological shifts and changing relationships to the supernatural that brought forth this uniquely modern monster in literature. / Graduate / 0593 / 0318 / 0358 / glukemaynard@gmail.com
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Providence: from pronoia to immanent affirmation in John Calvin's Institutes of 1559

Sanchez, Michelle Chaplin 04 June 2016 (has links)
Over the twentieth century and into the present, theorists of secularization and political theology have explored ways that theological arguments have shaped the social, ethical, economic, and political imaginaries of the modern West. In many of these studies, the doctrine of providence has come under scrutiny alongside related theological debates over of the nature of divine sovereignty, glory, the will, and the significance of immanent life in relation to divine transcendence. While it is often taken for granted that the Calvinist branch of Protestant reform likewise had a decisive impact on the shape of the modern West, there has been no extended treatment of Calvin's writing on providence, or related doctrines, which engages these arguments about secularization.

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