A religião no exército brasileiro: memória e plausibilidade na identidade dos soldados da FEB a partir da experiência de guerra

Abstract

The present work aims at analyzing the presence of religion in combat experience and memory of Brazilians involved in the Second World War. Therefore, it is considered the route of the service of spiritual assistance in the Brazilian Army, the formation of identities based on the experiences of war, some of them meant religiously and finally, the presence of religious symbols and the Catholic tradition in the process of building a memory public BEF. This paper believes that the chaplains of the BEF act as mediators between the spiritual forces, and also represent reconciliation between the institutional Army and the Catholic Church. It was therefore necessary to investigate the route of the distributions of spiritual care in the Brazilian Army, with emphasis on moments of transformation of this service. With the creation of the BEF and its participation in the conflict have the establishment of identities, from the wartime experiences of soldiers. The febian reports the importance of the religious aspect of these experiences in living out and contribute to the construction of their identities. In the postwar struggle for recognition of these identities leads to the construction of a public memory of the BEF, a selection process that ensures sense of the past lived by the soldiers.