A elite eclesiástica através da imprensa: reivindicações da Igreja diante da ideologia do progresso urbano e secularização na cidade de Canavieiras - Bahia (1903- 1913).

Abstract

This Masters dissertation presents new interpretations about the history of the Freguesia of São Boaventura do Poxim de Canavieiras, in the time frame of 1903-1913, on the church's claims to the movement of urban progress and the secularization of society in the city of Canavieiras. With the main sources of the press and photography, we sought to reinterpret the contentions of the Church, at the beginning of the 20th century, in search of its internal reorganization, patrimonial recovery, against the political and economic cocoa elite, which faced with indifference the issue of the recovery of the former matrix, in an advanced state of precariousness of its physical structure since the nineteenth century, and then, to resist joining in financially helping the construction works of the new mother church of St. Boaventura. In this work, we will present two episodes that involved the priests in controversies. The first, caused by the priest's disagreements with the people in 1903, then the physical aggression of the priest by a boy, and full Holy Week, in 1912, to exemplify the conflicts that were in the proposed cutout. In addition, the objectives of the political and economic elite, together with the municipality, in providing the new city, in reforms for improvements and beautification of its urban perimeter. Our argument will go through the ideological attachment of the elite for progress, of not commitment to the needs of the Church, which contradictorily professed the faith publicly, and the reactions of the priests to secularization and secularization, identified by us, as the cause of the distancing of this political and economic elite cocoa tree from the city, to the intentions of the Church to establish itself as part of this elite, differentiating from the other, being the emerging ecclesiastical elite, consolidated, with the creation of the Diocese of Ilhéus, in 1913, which, the Freguesia of São Boaventura do Poxim became part.