Fé e transgressões no espaço do confessionário sobre o olhar inquisitorial: casos de padres solicitantes na Capitania da Paraíba e Pernambuco - séx XVIII.

Abstract

The present work entitled Faith and transgressions in the space of the confessional on the inquisitorial gaze: cases of petitioning priests in the captaincy of Paraíba and Pernambuco- XVIII Century, has the purpose to problematize how the sacramental practices were transgressed through the crime of request in the space of the confessional, plunging into a stateof- the-art review of the presence of the Inquisition in Brazil. Analyzing the space of the captainships of Paraíba and Pernambuco and of the secular and regular religious, as well as making a contextualization about the creation of the Bishopric of Pernambuco and which territories were inserted in it. We show the inquisition as an instrument of power and social control, through a hierarchy of the inquisitorial agents, which were found in the colony. This institution created strategies to watch over and punish those who transgressed the norms of the Catholic Church, especially the law of celibacy, which involved in the sin and offense of petition and its forms, transcending the problematization of the triad visible in the sacramental act, confessor, confession and confessional. It was tried to revisit the discourses on the practices of request in eighteenth-century inquisitorial processes of the Bishopric of Pernambuco, especially of the captaincies of the Paraíba and Pernambuco, discussing about the remainders of the memory and the ideal of salvation. To compose new glances about these manifestations, we used as theoretical dialogues of the time as the religious literatures that were constructed throughout the times from the Catholic Church.