Protestantismo de exílio: Kalley e os refugiados da Ilha da Madeira em Illinois

• Autor(a) principal: Marques, Gilmar de Araújo
• Data de Publicação: 2006
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações do Mackenzie
• Texto Completo: http://dspace.mackenzie.br/handle/10899/25575
• topic: protestantismo de exílio; Kalley; exílio; refugiados; Ilha da Madeira; Illinois; aculturação; religião; exile s protestantism; Kalley; exile; refugees; Madeira Island; Illinois; aculturation; religious; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::TEOLOGIA::HISTORIA DA TEOLOGIA

Robert Reid Kalley, Scottish missionary and doctor, certainly is considering one of the principal personages exile s protestantism in the history of the world protestantism. However he s a few know and few appreciated in the church history and mission protestantism, considering that he was pioneer of the protestantism in Brasil. This project aspire to ransom the Kalley s biography, with enphasis in his thinking and his work made in Madeira Island and Illinois State, in the United States of America, before arrived to Brazil. The literature about the biography and Kalley s work and personal records from Madeira s remaining refugees in Illinois, show some feature of the exile s protestantism practiced for those communities, whose origin happened in missionary s work of the Madeira Island. For to characterize practice protestantism for Madeira s refugee like exile s protestantism aspired showed the origen of protestant moviment through Protestant Reform sixteenth century and developping social and politcs fight according with confront with religious supremacy in the european continent around politic power of the roman catolicism. Delivery from similar situations, turn back the moviment happened in religious persecution period of Church History. Aspiring to show analogy betwen these moviments and the persecution suffering Kalley and the Madeira Exiles and developping in the Caribean Islands and Illinois. The analylis of the Kalley s missionary work reveal how he always standed context with ecclesiastic politics and social question arised during his life. The analysis of evolution portuguese community in Illinois, to observe that religious origin and tongue was the central estructure of the social life refugees in early arrived in America and during long time of years, the Madeira community crossed process of aculturation being absolving for culture of the country that received them. In this view, gathering this several elements in six category or axis can to trace the type of protestantism that they practiced and identify us alike exiles protestantism. These category are: Persecution, Dispersal, Diffusion, Adhesion, Opposition, Dissension or Assimilation.