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Religious Education in Brazil*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 December 2015

Alceu Amoroso Lima
Alceu Amoroso Lima*
Affiliation:
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Religious education in Brazil can be conveniently divided into four phases or periods:

      I. 1553-1759
      II. 1759-1891
      III. 1891-1931
      IV. 1931 to the present.

During this early period religious education in Brazil was, practically speaking, in the hands of the Society of Jesus.

The movement known as the Counter-Reformation attached great importance to cultural formation. Three great personalities of the sixteenth century dominate this intellectual renascence which can rightly be called Catholic humanism. They are St. Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits, in Spain; Thomas More, the excellent Hellenist and sociologist, in England; and St. Angela Merici in Italy, who founded the Congregation of the Ursulines, dedicated especially to the education of women.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Americas , Volume 15 , Issue 2 , October 1958 , pp. 159 - 170
Copyright
Copyright © Academy of American Franciscan History 1958

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Footnotes

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Translated by Fr. M. C. Kiemen, O. F. M.

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* Translated by Fr. M. C. Kiemen, O. F. M.