As reconfigurações contemporâneas da caridade: o caso de Juiz de Fora

Abstract

Amid the individualistic tendencies of contemporary society, and actions of social groups, particularly religious in order to interact with this trend, to diminish it, requires you to understand the religious path of the sense of charity. To do this, search in this work focus on the course of the history of two religious traditions in the country, namely Catholicism and Kardecist Spiritualism. In this process, the practice of charity was undergoing profound changes and being re-semanticizing by interpenetration, ruptures and differences arising from the Brazilian religious plurality and sociopolitical adaptations of each context. This work then has to investigate as has been reconfiguring the charity, before the change of philanthropic practices in the city of Juiz de Fora, having as reference the Catholic religious approaches and Spiritualist Kardecist, the St. Vincent de Paul Society and the Institute Jesus, respectively. For this, the research object extends to the understanding of how the ideal of charity is being experienced by the followers of Catholicism and Spiritism Kardecist. Thus, it will be a literature review and field research in the above listed institutions. The hypothesis is that these practices, the socio-political intent underlying the charity developed by these religious aspects, both in aspects of control, power exercise, as those of social justice and gratuity. Search up with this comparative approach, starting this research, reflect on the space of charity in contemporary society as sociability ethos as well as his correspondence with the transformation of this society in the direction of philanthropy and citizenship.