O protagonismo feminino no projeto missionário do metodismo norteamericano no Brasil: uma análise do "Woman's Missionary Advocate" (1880-1910)

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Christiane Grace Guimarães da
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/20219
• topic: Missionárias; Movimento Missionário Metodista; Igreja metodista - Educação; Missionaries; Methodist Missionary Movement; Methodist Church - Education; Woman's Missionary Advocate; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::EDUCACAO::TOPICOS ESPECIFICOS DE EDUCACAO

Idealized by the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, the periodical ―Woman‟s Missionary Advocate‖, published monthly in the United States and without any interruptions between 1880 and 1910, used to receive information from the missionaries who reported their experiences in several parts of the world, including Brazil. Its first number was started in July, 1880 with 16 pages and its last edition was published in December, 1910 with 47 pages. The newspaper based on the saying ―from woman to woman‖ was totally managed by women and supported by annual subscriptions. Besides the actions of the missions in the educational field, it published, in full, the annual meetings of the Woman‘s Board of Foreign Mission and the several missionary activities accomplished in the mission fields. In the end of XIX century, several societies were organized with the purpose of becoming the activity of expanding Methodism more efficient and structured. Even the movement being led by men and considering the missionaries were married and their wives were consequently equally involved in this project, the scenario changes after the increase of the Woman's Missionary Societies that became an objective of great benefit at Church to take different positions and tasks, mainly in the establishment of schools. The purpose of this research is to study the North-American Methodist Missionary Movement in Brazil, in reference of the educational aspect, based on the woman's involvement. Through analysis procedures based on the Cultural History perspective, it is supported in the studies of Roger Chartier about practical notions and representations, and of Michel de Certeau in the distinction of the categories called tactics and strategies, in the study of the cultural practices. The Woman‟s Missionary Advocate, a diffusing newspaper about the Methodist missionary movement, especially with regard to the school education, was a privileged place of dissemination and defense of the Methodist missionary ideals in a historicity that highlights the women's role. Through its study was possible to defend the theses about the female protagonism in the Methodist missionary movement in Brazil, showing the women's effective involvement more than the direct action at schools