Uma terra dourada de tanto ouro: educação católica germânica nos séculos XIX e XX

Abstract

If the Germanic and German-Brazilian presence and sedentariness in the various poles of attraction in southern Brazil has already received enough attention from competent historiography, this article centers its focus more on the pole of repulsion than on that of attraction for these immigrants. The objective is to try to draw an overview of the ideas that mobilized a Germanic missionary expansion with a view to the dissemination of Romanized Catholicism throughout the world, which, in turn, engendered the curricula and practices of the schools that served the Germanic and Germanic Brazilian community in Paraná. Thus, in a first moment, we try to characterize the historical context of the repulsion of Germanic emigrants towards the south of Brazil, in order, in a second moment, to understand the field of ideas, tensions and distensions of the Catholic Church of the period that came to form and influence the Catholic Germanic missionary mentality exported and incorporated in multiple German-Brazilian schools.