História e Verdade(s), vol. 23

MARIA DAS GRAÇAS ATAÍDE DE ALMEIDA
Rechristianization of politics: pacts and intrigues between the Church and the State in Brazil (1937-1945).

This work aims at analysing the relationships between the Catholic church and the State in Brazil during the 30s of the twentieth century. We have worked on trying to show how the pacts and the schemes that bonded the alliance between the Church and de State by that time. The Church was ready to contribute with a project on religious indoctrination where the ecclesiastical laws of obedience, loyalty and order would sympathize with those nationalistic authoritarian projects of the New State in the country. Thus a pact was made and an alliance between the spiritual and the temporal powers assured the Church a position in the political staff. In return the State would count on a doctrinal discourse and a practice, which the Church would work on the collective leading the population to a state of aversion what was known as the "exotic ideologies", and to obeying a being loyal to the new political order.