RELIGIÃO, DITADURA E RESISTÊNCIA: A ORDEM DOS DOMINICANOS E CARLOS MARIGHELLA

Abstract

This paper seeks to convey an understanding of the Brazilian civil-military dictatorship of 1964-1985 and to allow a different look at different interpretative angles. Throughout the historiography produced in the twentieth century, issues related to a memory of the “subversives”, important characters in the identity construction of national history, were discussed at various moments.The Catholic Church is linked to an unconsciousness of unrestricted and unconditional support, since the opposition towards the João Goulart government of 1961-1964 to the architecture of the coup that culminated in its deposition. Therefore, there is a social need to reconstruct the historical discourse and the constitution of the country's memory in understanding that, despite the support of secular sectors of Brazilian Catholicism, there were segments within it that were dedicated to the resistance of such an instituted regime. With reference to the work of the Dominican Order in support of the fight against oppression and dialogues with Carlos Mariguella's NLA (National Liberation Alliance), the aim of this study is to promote a re-reading of the ideas produced about the Brazilian civil-military dictatorship (1964-1985), considering the Annales historiographical conception, allowing the interdiscursivity of historical subjects hitherto opaque before an “official history”, giving voice to the silenced, seldom known and, when referenced, "objects" of condemnation and judgment. All while recognizing the existence of sectors linked to the Catholic Church as mechanisms of resistance and consequently demonstrating that, regardless of time, Religion also translates into the transformation of the Public Sphere.