Missionação no Império Português
Courses Licenciatura em História
The Portuguese Empire was built on the confluence of several interests, whether by conjugation or in an opposite way. This course unit introduces the power lines of Christian agents' evangelization, not only highlighting the conflicts and ‘pacts’, but most of all, the several principles and ideals that guide the evangilization process in Portuguese colonies.
The royal patronage and all it implies, as well as the various missionary quarrels between religious orders and the crown or the papacy, show the predominant interests and forces. The acculturation and enculturation phenomena is interpreted in the evangelist mission context, as well as its shortcomings and virtues.
Evangelization
Empire
Colonialism
Christianization
- Analyse the phenomena related to missionisation and their consequences in colonisation processes;
- Understand the role of the various agents of evangelisation;
- Discuss and evaluate the impact of religious and cultural phenomena on the history of peoples.
Theme 1: The dynamism of Portuguese Christianity: contexts and pretexts.
Theme 2: Christianity and Portuguese expansion: agents, methods and problems (15th-18th centuries).
Theme 3: From the nineteenth-century surge to contemporary missionary issues.
AMORIM, Maria Adelina, Os Franciscanos no Maranhão e Grão-Pará, Lisboa, Centro de Estudos de História Religiosa da Universidade Católica, 2005.
BETHENCOURT, Francisco e CHAUDHURI, Kirti (eds), História da Expansão, 5 vols., Lisboa, Círculo de Leitores,1998-1999.
COSTA, João Paulo Oliveira e, “A Diáspora Missionária” in História Religiosa de Portugal, vol. 2 - Humanismos e Reformas, coord. João Francisco Marques e António Camões Gouveia, Lisboa, Círculo de Leitores, 2000, p. 255-313.
DORES, Hugo, A Missão da República. Política, Religião e o Império Colonial Português (1910-1926), Lisboa, Edições 70, 2015.
GONÇALVES, Nuno da Silva, “A dimensão missionária do catolicismo português” in História Religiosa de Portugal, vol. 3 – Religião e Secularização, coord. Manuel Clemente e António Matos Ferreira, Lisboa, Círculo de Leitores, 2002, p. 353- 397.
Missionação Portuguesa e Encontro de Culturas. Congresso Internacional de História. Actas, 4 volumes, Braga, Universidade Católica Portuguesa/Comissão Nacional para a Comemoração dos Descobrimentos Portugueses/Fundação Evangelização e Culturas, 1993.
MORIER-GENOUD, Eric, Catholicism and the Making of Politics in Central Mozambique. 1940-1986, Rochester, University of Rochester, 2019.
São Francisco Xavier, Oriente, revista quadrimensal da Fundação Oriente, nº 13, Dezembro de 2005.
THOMAZ, Luís Filipe, De Ceuta a Timor, Lisboa, Difel, 1994.
THOMAZ, Luís Filipe, A Expansão portuguesa, Um prisma de muitas faces, 2ª edição, Lisboa, Gradiva, 2022.
E-learning
Continuous assessment is privileged: 2 digital written documents (e-folios) during the semester (40%) and a final digital test, Global e-folio (e-folio G) at the end of the semester (60%). In due time, students can alternatively choose to perform one final exam (100%).
Students are required to have access to a computer with Internet connection and an e-mail address as well as to have computer literacy from the users' perspective.