Stinted Faith, illuminated Science: The Debate over the Alliance between religion and science in newspapers of the Brazilian State of Ceará (1910-1930)

Authors

  • Marcos José Diniz Silva

Keywords:

Spiritualism, Freemasonry, theosophy, religion, science

Abstract

The article deals with one aspect of religious disputes in the public space of Ceará first decades of the twentieth century, involving followers of Spiritualism, Theosophy and Freemasonry as components of a modern-spiritual movement with strong presence in the press and in the cares of the intellectual and political state, forming alliances in the struggle for religious equality in defense of the secular state and the ideals of universal brotherhood. Also in the work of their proposed an alliance between religion and science, according to the assumptions of modernity and at odds with the traditional spiritual concepts, especially by Catholicism

Author Biography

Marcos José Diniz Silva

Graduado em História. Doutor em Sociologia. Professor de História da Universidade Estadual do Ceará – UECE (FECLESC/Campus Quixadá)

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Vol. 12 No. 1 (2012): História da Religião - Perspectivas Culturalistas

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Seção Temática

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