Os pecados do Brasil: luteranos e inquisição séculos XVI e XVII

• Autor(a) principal: Britto, Rossana Gomes
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/12991
• topic: Inquisition; Lutheranism; Processes; Colonial Brazil; Inquisição; Luteranismo; Processos; Brasil colonial; Brasil - História - Período colonial, 1500 1822; Luteranos - Brasil; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::HISTORIA

The issue of this research covers Portuguese penetration and inquisitional repression to the so-called Lutheran heresy. Before any comment, it is necessary to say the term Lutheran at the Modern age was used by inquisitors as a generic term to identify protestant foreigners. It is an unpublished and original issue among historical researches specialized in Inquisition, focusing the inquisitional processes of the Lisboeta Saint Services against defendants in Brazilian lands. It deals of an investigation concerning introduction and diffusion of Lutheranism in Colonial Brazil between the 16th and 17th centuries. Processes of the Portuguese Inquisition are the most prominent primary sources in this Dissertation. Besides, there are administrative and juridical documents which improve the issue exploitation. Lutheranism in Colonial Brazil presented many faces: since the ships Lutheranism, when Portuguese expanded off shore and were taken by French and English Lutherans to the land Lutheranism with its conflicts and colonial wars. Also presenting that Lutheranism for free adhesion. The pursued and sued crime by the Portuguese Inquisition Trial in Brazil was a Lutheranism articulated with deep social, political and cultural changes in Modern Europe and with the singularities of colonial society.