No God, no master: The anti-religiosism in anarchist anticlerical propaganda at the beginning of the Republic in Brazil

The establishment of the Republic of Brazil in 1889 intensified discussions of anticlerical content that were fostered, among others, by freethinkers, freemasons, socialists, and anarchists, mainly due to the arrival of religious congregations in the country, identified with ultramontane catholicism...

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Autor: Rudy, Antonio Cleber
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:Brasil
Institución:Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP)
Repositorio:Rever (São Paulo. Online)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/59146
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/rever/article/view/59146
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:anticlericalismo
livre pensamento
anarquismo
cultura libertária
antirreligiosismo
Primeira República brasileira
anticlericalism
free thought
anarchism
libertarian culture
anti-religionism
First Brazilian Republic
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Sumario:The establishment of the Republic of Brazil in 1889 intensified discussions of anticlerical content that were fostered, among others, by freethinkers, freemasons, socialists, and anarchists, mainly due to the arrival of religious congregations in the country, identified with ultramontane catholicism. Therefore, in this article, we will deal with the propaganda to combat the Church promoted by the anarchist press with the labor movement, which, through the newspaper A Lanterna (1901-1904; 1909-1916), also brought anti-religious propositions in its framework. So, the anarchists played an essential role in the press and in the creation of fighting entities that instigated the social debate about the interference of the catholic clergy in civil society (clericalism), followed by solid criticism of religious institutions (and religion itself) that, according to the libertarian perspective, freedom of thought and social transformation were seen as obstacles.