RELIGION & politics, ECONOMIC change, RESEARCH methodology, SOCIAL change, PANORAMAS, BIOECONOMICS
Abstract
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*PROTESTANTISM, *MODERN church history, 1500-, *RELIGION & politics, *PROTESTANT history, *HISTORY of the freedom of religion, *CONSTITUTIONS, *POLARIZATION (Social sciences), *TWENTIETH century, *HISTORY
Abstract
The establishment of the Brazilian republic triggered political agents within the religious sphere to analyze the 1891 Constitution. The Protestant political insertion increased and one may trace the catalyzing elements of its political activities, even though most segments kept aloof from politics. They merely manifested themselves when religious issues on religious freedom were involved. The 1950 political context brought to the fore new concerns on the religious polarization. Foregrounded on the conflict theory of Lewis Coser, current paper discusses the construction of these two subjects that heralded the social and religious projects of the republican period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]