The Civilizing Process Dimension of the American Presence in Brazil: Technology, Education and Religion

  • Luiz Cândido Martins Universidade Metodista de Piracicaba – UNIMEP
  • Luis de Souza Cardoso Universidade Metodista de Piracicaba – UNIMEP
Keywords: Immigrants, Missionaries, Americans, Civilization Process, Technology, Education, Protestant Religion.

Abstract

The arrival of the American protestant missionaries in Brazil along with American immigrants from Southern US happened from the second half of the XIX century on, in an attempt to reconstruct life after the civil war. The most significant nesting of American immigrants occured in the province of São Paulo inlands, mainly around the cities Santa Bárbara D’Oeste and Americana. This study aims at identifying the civilization dimension of the immigrants and American missionaries in Brazil focusing the analysis in three aspects: the technology, the education and the protestant religion. The hypotheses that the text aims to prove are that these Americans had passed from the condition of outsiders to established ones, as well as they produced a civilizing process, regarding their command over codes, techniques and instruments that were mode modern than those that existed in the second half of the XIX century in Brazil.

Author Biographies

Luiz Cândido Martins, Universidade Metodista de Piracicaba – UNIMEP
Teólogo graduado pelo Seminário Teológico de São Paulo; Mestrado em Ciências da Religião pela Universidade Metodista de São Paulo; Doutorado em Educação pela Universidade Metodista de Piracicaba - UNIMEP. E-mail: lcandido40@ig.com.br
Luis de Souza Cardoso, Universidade Metodista de Piracicaba – UNIMEP
Teólogo graduado pela Faculdade de Teologia da Igreja Metodista; Mestre em Ciências da Religião pela Universidade Metodista de São Paulo; Doutorando em Educação - Política e Gestão, pela Universidade Metodista de Piracicaba – UNIMEP. E-mail: luis.cardoso@cogeime.org.br
Published
2009-10-21
Section
Artigos Originais