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The Changing Roles of Priests in the Politics of Northeast Brazil, 1889-1964

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 December 2015

Eul-Soo Pang*
Affiliation:
Department of History, Vanderbilt University

Extract

Northeast Brazil had traditionally maintained two functionally separate but structurally related Catholic Churches: on the coast, usually in the state capitals, the “ official church ” has been manned and officiated by a well-trained bureaucratic hierarchy; and in the hinterlands, the backlanders have often practiced a variety of “ folk Catholicism.” In a social and economic context, the Brazilian Northeast can also be divided into the “ far Northeast” of Gilberto Freyre and Jorge Amado, the world of opulent sugar and cacao planters on the one hand, and on the other the Northeast of drought, poverty, hunger, and superstition described by Rachel de Queiroz and Graciliano Ramos. In this divergent Northeast, religion has played an important role in the lives of the backlanders, and often priests, both the practitioners of the folk Catholicism and the ordained of the official church have managed to influence the politics of the region.

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Copyright © Academy of American Franciscan History 1974

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12 Dom Antônio Macedo da Costa, archbishop of Bahia, founded a Catholic Party in 1890 and became the party’s candidate for the federal senate. Typically, the Partido Católico in Bahia failed to include the sertão and was eventually forced to dissolve by the papal order. Jornal de Noticias, Salvador da Bahia), 7–8 August 1890.

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38 The PSD of Bahia (1933–1937) should not be confused with the party of the same name, which Vargas founded in 1945.

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52 “SUDENE—Northeast up from Scratch,” Conjuntura Econômica. XV: 11 (Nov. 1968), p. 32.

53 Ibid.

54 IBGE, Anuário Estatístico do Brasil-1970, p. 37 gives the population of the Northeast from 1872 to 1960. The figure of 1970 is from Boletim Especial.

55 “Wage Levels in Various States in Brazil,” Conjuntura Econômica, XIII: 2 (Dec. 1966), pp. 55–59.

56 Prospects of the Sugar Industry,” ibid., X: 5 (May 1963), pp. 43–50.

57 For an interesting account of the turbulent early 1960’s of the Northeast by an American observer, see Page, Joseph A., The Revolution That Never Was: Northeast Brazil 1955–1964 (New York, 1972).Google Scholar The role of U. S. foreign aid was studied by Roett, Riordan, The Politics of Foreign Aid in the Brazilian Northeast (Nashville, 1972).Google Scholar Roett, (ed), Brazil in the Sixties (Nashville, 1972)Google Scholar has a pertinent chapter on the church in the Northeast. See Note 67.

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71 Callado, , Tempo de Arraes, pp. 7981.Google Scholar A collection of Miguel Arraes– speeches as governor between 31 January 1963 and 1 April 1964 is published in Palavra de Arraes (Rio, 1965?), pp. 9–140.

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83 It seems that the influence of priests in politics and especially in public office in Rio Grande do Sul during the Old Republic was virtually nil. Love, , Rio Grande do Sul, p. 76 Google Scholar states that “In most of Brazil priests occasionally figured as coronéis—but not in Rio Grande. Moreover, in all the years of the Old Republic no priest entered congress as a representative for Rio Grande do Sul or held a post in the state executive, and only two sat in the legislature. The party [Republican Party of Rio Grande do Sul] chief even implied he was not a Catholic. The lack of a strong religious tradition in Rio Grande has been noted by historians and can be supported statistically by comparing data from Rio Grande with figures from other states in Brazil.”