THE DISSEMINATION OF SPIRITUAL TEXTS IN MODERN TIMES

• Autor(a) principal: Avelino, Carla
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34630/polissema.v1i22.4792
• topic: imprensa; produção espiritual; leituras; textos; hagiografia; santidade; press; spiritual production; readings; texts; hagiography; holiness

The proliferation of devotional and spiritual readings or writings, suggested or imposed, worked for the Church as a control strategy through which religious discourse was conveyed, aiming to shape behaviors based on the imitation of the proposed models, aiming at spiritual perfection, required of lay people and, above all, of those who took the habit.Thus, the analysis of factors such as the type of books that were read, the authors chosen, the places chosen, the spiritual, political and social conjuncture that encouraged the edition of certain texts are elements to consider when approaching the religious text in the european Catholic society of Modern Era. The preponderance and overvaluation of the figure of the saint as an aggregator and catalyst, ad imitandum, explains the success of hagiographic texts and the search for new literary genres, namely biographies, memories and spiritual autobiographies.