Well-developed bodies of research exist in the separate areas of religious identity and social engagement, but only a small selection of recent work is devoted to understanding their intersection. This dissertation adds to this selection by exploring the connections between religious identity and social engagement. More specifically, this work focuses on understanding the role that individual and collective interpretations of religious identity play in shaping the socio-psychological processes that influence whether, and in what capacity, individuals and groups devote themselves to social change. This work attempts to achieve four goals: 1) to explore the multilevel nature of religious identity within society; 2) to evaluate the effects of religious identity on social engagement; 3) to show the usefulness of quantitative methodologies to social movement research; and 4) to add to the body of research in the field of religion and social movements. I find that the relationship between religious identity and attitudes and behaviors related to social engagement is more complex than current approaches acknowledge.

Orientador: Jefferson Cano / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-12T14:43:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Arduini_GuilhermeRamalho_M.pdf: 1000138 bytes, checksum: ca303e67538e908073b1e9a89c446e9a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / Resumo: Este estudo trata de um intelectual brasileiro chamado Alceu Amoroso Lima, também conhecido como Tristão do Ataíde. Em 1928, ele assumiu publicamente a fé católica, tornando-se uma das vozes mais importantes da Igreja no Brasil durante as décadas seguintes. Em outras palavras, ele envolveu-se indiretamente em política, tornando-se o representante oficioso da Igreja para assuntos ligados à política e escreveu muitos livros e artigos. Entre as décadas de 1920 e 1940 ele demonstrava uma mentalidade reacionária, mas gradativamente tornou-se um defensor ardoroso da liberdade de imprensa e outros direitos civis, especialmente após a II Guerra Mundial. Nosso objetivo é compreender as causas desta mudança, assim como as conseqüências que isto trouxe para suas ações e escritos sobre o problema da organização das classes trabalhadoras de acordo a Doutrina Social da Igreja. / Abstract: This study is about a Brazilian intellectual called Alceu Amoroso Lima, also known as "Tristão do Ataíde". In 1928, he publicly adopted Catholicism, becoming one of the most important voices of the Church in Brazil throughout the following decades. In other words, he got indirectly involved in politics by becoming the semi-official delegate for political affairs and wrote several articles and books. In the late 1920s and 1930s he expressed a very conservative mindset; nevertheless especially after the II World War he gradually became a champion of freedom of speech and other civil rights. Our aim is to understand the causes of this change as well as the consequences it brought to his actions and writings on the problem of organizing the working classes according to the Catholic Social Doctrine. / Mestrado / Historia / Mestre em História