O jornal O Mossoroense e a questão religiosa: representações sobre maçons e ultramontanos (1872-1875).

Abstract

The present work refers about the “O Mossoroense” newspaper and their representations about Masonry, Ultramontanism, Republic, and Protestantism in the context of the religious problem between the years of the 1872 and 1875, during period that the newspaper functioned and that the religious problem increased and came in its bigger level. The religious problem was an ideological and political conflict between the ultramontane wing from the Catholic and the Masonry Church, being that the interdictions inserted by the Bishop from Olinda, Don Vital, to the brotherhoods that do not expulsed of their member’s list the masonries, clashed with the empire civil legislation. The Protestants also entered into the conflict, when in the conflict occasion between the State and the Catholic Church claimed the separation between both powers. As theoretical support, we used to the representations concepts, according to Chartier and Santos. As research methodology, we used the documental analysis, aiming to problematize and to interpret the discourses of the newspaper in the construction of their representations.